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    Thoughts for those have have served and those who have fallen, on our behalf.
    Lest We forget.

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    Laying in bed this morning and listening to "Band played waltzing Matilda" on teh radio when it dawned on me that there's a significant error in the lyrics

    When I was a young man I carried my pack
    And I lived the free life of a rover
    From the murrays green basin to the dusty outback
    I waltzed my matilda all over
    Then in nineteen fifteen my country said son
    It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be Done
    So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
    And they sent me away to the war
    And the band played Waltzing Matilda
    As we sailed away from the quay
    And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the Cheers
    We sailed off to Gallipoli
    My recollection is that ANZAC and British troops hit the shore at Gallipoli not wearing ay sort of helmet but just cloth or Slouch hats.

    A quick check shows that "The first delivery of the Brodie to British troops took place in September 1915, initially only at the rate of 50 per battalion. Initially, there were far from enough helmets to equip every man, so they were designated as "trench stores", to be kept in the front line and used by each unit that occupied the sector."
    It was not until 1916 that all troops got helmets.
    So those poor bastards didn't even get a tin hat and many suffered fatal head injuries for it.
    Suggest may replacing "tin" with "slouch" in teh song?

    Still a great song though.

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    I'd like to say a big THANK YOU to all those that served, are serving, and thinking of serving in the various arms of the forces.
    Kryn
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    It's amazing how ANZAC day has gone from something everyone wanted to forget in the 60s to the status it now enjoys.

    In my 25 year career I think I marched every year, didn't have a choice. Now I have a choice I never march.

    I think ANZAC day has lost it's way, many of the people I served with march every year, despite never having served in an operational zone. I never served in an operational zone so I refuse to march, to my thinking I'd be watering down the importance and significance of the day. On ANZAC day we should be honouring those who put their lives on hold to serve their country, many coming back broken men and women.

    So, for all those who did serve in an operational zone, I salute you and thank you for your service. For those who never returned, may you rest in peace knowing you are our true heroes.

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    Even though you may not have served in an operational zone, you did your bit and I feel have every right to march along with others. Without personel like you in the background, everything stops, you make sure supplies are delivered on time and where they need be.
    So I salute and give thanks to you and others like you for your support for others.
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    In my opinion, sporting events ie football shouldn't be allowed on ANZAC day. Its not a celebration day but a remembrance day.
    I saw an ad for some football stuff on TV recently and it showed some fierce looking footballer and the caption was "sacrifice" then another with the caption "resilience" and I thought to myself, " no. sacrifice are the poor buggers who didn't make it back from WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam and the middle east. Resilience are the ones that fought, live and died in absolutely horrendous conditions" Not some footballer who runs around a paddock a couple of nights a week who the media turns into some sort of hero.
    peter

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