Anzac Day Today

[Dizaster]

My dad's grandad actually died during that campaign.. He was up early this morning polishing his dad's medals and shining his shoes etc, as he goes in one of the marches.. My dad's dad also died in a later war. So today means I lot to him I suppose to reflect on what he had to give up to war.

From what i've heard (which ashamadly, is not a huge amount), it was on the 25th of April, in early morning, that our soldiers arrived on the shores of ANZAC cove. Very similar to the start of Saving Private Ryan,,,, or that one campaign in many of the Call of Duty/Medal of Honor games where you come off the boats and are immediately attacked.
Many soldiers never even made it only the beach. Their boats/people carriers were shot and destroyed before they made it to dry land, and died in the water..


Many Australians travel over to Gallipoli each year, and stay over night the 24th of April camping out in the cove where the troops arrived at the break of dawn the next morning. They have a very big service there at dawn, around the time the first troops landed their and died back in 1915.

I would love to go over their sometime in the future. Most people that have been there say that the atmosphere there in the freezing morning, and imaging all the troops were laying in mud,rain, and getting pelted with bullets while trying to dig trenches and just survive.. It would be a sobbering experience..