Anzac Day

[brewtality]

90 years on. Even though i'm a first generation australian and thus had no link to the gallipoli campaign, I feel very emotional and sad today. Thousands of australian and new zealand diggers gave their lives so valiantly faced against incredible. Even though it ended in defeat, Australia as we know it was born in the trenches of gallipoli. Many of these lads were my age or younger (youngest anzac died at 14). I hope to visit Anzac cove in the future to pay my respects. Lest we forget.

[ted]

My music teacher fought at Gallipoli with his violin strapped to his back. He survived an explosion and was sent home wounded but the violin was destroyed.

[Dazzer]

pardon my ignorance, but wouldn't any anzacs alive now would be ... pretty old?

[Hmoll]

pardon my ignorance, but wouldn't any anzacs alive now would be ... pretty old?

Just about all of them would be dead. That doesn't mean it's not important to remember Gallipoli, the Anzacs, and the whole Bosporus campaign of 1915.

The Anzacs are one of the many reminders from WWI of the futility of war. Not only were hundreds of thousands from both sides killed and wounded, the whole campaign - which lasted  just under a year, if you count from Feb., 1915 (when the navy arrived) to Jan. 1916 ( when the Austalian, French and other allied troops withdrew) - did not shorten the war one single day.