Anzac Day 25Th April 2012

[Kan Win]

Lest we forget.

http://www.theage.com.au/tv/show/anzacs-in-the-face-of-war/anzacs-in-the-face-of-war-20111111-1nab2.html

Explore what ANZAC represents to the people today and yesterday, and how the nations prepared and faced war.

Win

[David48]

Victorian state president of the RSL Major General David McLachlan discusses his pleasure to see so many young people attending ANZAC Day dawn services.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-25/interview-with-victorian-rsl-president/3971506

[David48]

Queenslanders remembers the fallen

Thousands of people have attended the dawn service at Brisbane's Anzac Square.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-25/qld-remembers-the-fallen/3971378

Lest we forget ...

[David48]

Anzac Day ... commemorates the landing at Gallipoli in 1915 of the two countries' fighting men, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, during World War I.

This was the war that was impossible to win ...

All in all, in the Gallipoli Campaign which ultimately ended in defeat, more than 8700 Australians and between 2400 and 2721 New Zealanders were killed. In relation to the two countries' population at the time, this was a massive loss of lives — a sacrifice remembered deeply on Anzac Day.

http://goaustralia.about.com/cs/eventsfestivals/a/anzacday.htm

[David48]

A thought for Next Years ANZAC service ...

Each year on 25 April, ANZAC Day in Thailand is commemorated by conducting a Dawn Service and Gunfire Breakfast at Hellfire Pass and a Memorial Service and Wreath Laying Ceremony at Kanchanaburi Allied War Cemetery.

http://www.thaivisa....aburi-thailand/

Kan Win did the originial post and one of the Mods, Rooo has posted it.

(please correct me if I have mistaken)

[MiG16]

"They shall grow not old,

As we that are left grow old,

Age shall not weary them,

Nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun,

And in the morning

We will remember them."

- Laurence Binyon, English poet and writer

Lest we forget

[fletchsmile]

Yes. Thank you to the Aussie's and Kiwis for what they gave

[jcw]

Yes I agree. There are actually two cemetery's there with graves from at least British, Dutch, French, NZ, Australian POW's. Many Americans died as well but their bodies returned to USA. I think it is great that they are remembered so well.