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..

[CFH]

Thanks for the info guys.
Dizaster: it sounds like your family has made great sacrifices in the name of Australia.
My great-grandfather was a Canadian tank commander in WW2, he was wounded twice in action.

[Dizaster]

Thanks for the info guys.
Dizaster: it sounds like your family has made great sacrifices in the name of Australia.
My great-grandfather was a Canadian tank commander in WW2, he was wounded twice in action.

It's easy for me to forget as I obviously never met my grandfather... I remember when I was about 7, we went on holidays, and on the way went to a big war memorial building and found their names on the walls there.. The place was filled with thousands and thousands of name..
World Wars were in a way, essential, but such a waste for so many families..

[Salty]

I went to the local dawn service today, plan to make it a regular feature. It's not often we as a society thank people which gave so much for this country at such a high cost.

Lest we forget

[Andre]

In reality they all did it for the whole worlds freedom firstly, but when they arrived and the reality set in ; they all fought more for their mates around them.

My Grandad was a rear gunner in a Lancaster and another type of bomber too, lonely job out there on the tail .

My other Granddad was a truckie out in the sahara and got enphzema from all the dust which took one lung and then his life eventually.
He used to send my gran love poems from the front and they are in the war memorial in Canberra , even though he was in the British army.