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Super Collie pays her respects at a war memorial on ANZAC Day (April 25). It's probably unusual for a veterans and war remembrance day to mark a battle which was lost - the Gallipoli campaign, April, 1915, in the First World War - but I like to think that a good part of the Australian and New Zealand culture. After all, anyone can remember a battle they won ...
And I think the most moving aspect of ANZAC Day is the following quotation from Ataturk, Turkish general at Gallipoli and later founder of modern Turkey. Considering this was the guy whose forces the ANZAC troops were fighting against:
"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us, where they lie side by side here in this country of ours... You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries, wipe away your tears; Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."
And I think the most moving aspect of ANZAC Day is the following quotation from Ataturk, Turkish general at Gallipoli and later founder of modern Turkey. Considering this was the guy whose forces the ANZAC troops were fighting against:
"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us, where they lie side by side here in this country of ours... You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries, wipe away your tears; Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."
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I'm personally rather ambivalent about Anzac Day. To me, it's just a day off (except when it falls on a weekend). I understand the need for some people to commemorate the occasion of some battle that took place nearly a century ago, but I feel that it's largely moot these days, as the last person who was there apparently died last year (so I'm told). Or is Anzac Day now used more as a generic memorial day, for people who fought and died in any war after WWI?
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