Happy ANZAC Day!

[Frank Frey]

To All of You ANZAC Types,

I would like to take a moment to thank you and your countrymen for your ongoing contributions to the fight for Freedom. God Bless You All, Aussie, Kiwi, and Canuck
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers..."

Out Here,
Frank Frey

[pmulcahy11b]

I just looked up ANZAC Day on Wikipedia -- sounds basically like Veterans' Day in the US. I honor your countries' sacrifices.

[Gabe The Gun]

I second that!!

[Webstral]

Thanks for all you guys have given. Collectively, you've fought a lot of fights that you didn't start but which to fought to the end. I'm going to the kitchen to pour a stiff one for the lot o' ye... (that's y'all in the southern US)

Webstral

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

I just looked up ANZAC Day on Wikipedia -- sounds basically like Veterans' Day in the US. I honor your countries' sacrifices.

The difference is that we have two days of rememberance. What the US calls Veteran's Day (November 11th), we call either Armistice Day or Rememberance Day. Here it is not a celebration of veterans but a rememberance of the signing of the armistice which ended WW1 and we think of all those involved and most especially those who died.
ANZAC Day is also a rememberance but not just of the people killed in the wars but also of Australia and New Zealand's first military actions as sovereign nations

[Targan]

Wow, its cool that ANZAC Day has been mentioned, thanks. Although it is not exclusively about Gallipoli, ANZAC Day is a time when Aussies and Kiwis tend to focus on the Gallipoli Campaign in what is now Turkey during WWI. The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, commanded the Ottoman Empire's 19th Division against British and ANZAC forces during the Gallipoli campaign. My mother's father's father, an Anglican clergyman, served as a stretcher bearer with the ANZAC forces in Gallipoli. I was baptised in the church which he built himself when he returned from the war.