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| Thread ID: 109073 | 2010-04-23 04:19:00 | Who is attending an ANZAC ceremony this weekend? | xyz823 (13649) | PC World Chat |
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| 879245 | 2010-04-24 21:21:00 | This morning's parade was okay (in fog). Some padre (with verbal diarrhoea and no off button) drove a lot more of us home than the buses and taxis combined. I was with a Turkish family which was a first for me. They have twelve relatives still at the battlefield. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 879246 | 2010-04-25 12:05:00 | I didnt go. My uncles stepdad is/was an anzac. He didnt go. His exact words being **** that, if they only knew what really happened they wouldnt want to celebrate either. Plus 99% of his mates are dead so bit of a touchy subject |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 879247 | 2010-04-25 12:47:00 | If he is still alive and was in the ANZAC corps he would pretty old. Like say aged 18 min in 1918. ANZAC day isnt a celebration its to remember the fallen in the Boer WW1 & 2 Korea, Vietnam and Timor Island. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 879248 | 2010-04-25 12:53:00 | I may have my facts wrong, he is 91. I know for certain he fought vietnam. He also helped at Chernobyl when things were at there worst. Currently fighting cancer which is assumed to be caused by old age/ radiation. I was sure he was an anzac, or maybe he knew many of them through the army when he joined or something. Either way he doesnt talk about it |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 879249 | 2010-04-25 15:40:00 | I may have my facts wrong, he is 91. I know for certain he fought vietnam. He also helped at Chernobyl when things were at there worst. I was not aware that the Soviets accepted foreign aid for Chernobyl... As a matter of fact everyone offered aid, but none was accepted. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 879250 | 2010-04-25 19:22:00 | I was not aware that the Soviets accepted foreign aid for Chernobyl... As a matter of fact everyone offered aid, but none was accepted. everyone but pirates |
plod (107) | ||
| 879251 | 2010-04-25 20:51:00 | He wouldnt have been enlisted by then as he would of been 67/68 but from what my uncle says he was definitely there for whatever reason and helped where he could. From what I gather they accepted no help from other governments, that doesnt go to say that they didnt accept help from passers by with miltitary experience. I can only tell you what Ive been told but AFAIK and thats about all I know its the truth ;) |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 879252 | 2010-04-25 21:36:00 | If he is still alive and was in the ANZAC corps he would pretty old. Like say aged 18 min in 1918. ANZAC day isnt a celebration its to remember the fallen in the Boer WW1 & 2 Korea, Vietnam and Timor Island. It's always puzzled me why we celebrate a failed British invasion of Turkey. A bit like the Germans celebrating the failed invasion of Russia or the japs celebrating the failure in the Pacific. We should be celebrating all wars and not have so much emphasis on Gallipoli campaign.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 879253 | 2010-04-25 21:45:00 | ....they wouldnt want to celebrate either. ANZAC services are not a celebration. Never were, never will be. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 879254 | 2010-04-25 22:27:00 | I may have my facts wrong, he is 91. I know for certain he fought vietnam. He also helped at Chernobyl when things were at there worst. Currently fighting cancer which is assumed to be caused by old age/ radiation. I was sure he was an anzac, or maybe he knew many of them through the army when he joined or something. Either way he doesnt talk about it Well he has talked and said: He was an ANZAC He was at Chernobyl He is a Vietnam vet To have served from say 1918 to 1972 is a fair achievement It's always puzzled me why we celebrate a failed British invasion of Turkey. A bit like the Germans celebrating the failed invasion of Russia or the japs celebrating the failure in the Pacific. We should be celebrating all wars and not have so much emphasis on Gallipoli campaign.. Same as Poms at Dunkirk, its a totally English/Australian/NZ/Rhodesian thing its a sense of fair play and respecting the opposition the way I make sense of it is cricket rules. Can you imagine yanks and germans playing cricket? |
prefect (6291) | ||
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