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Thread ID: 108639	2010-04-05 22:24:00	Tuesday Monday Laughs: Of men, Women and Marriage.......	Billy T (70)	PC World Chat

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873353	2010-04-06 21:24:00	Good one Cicero...so true too Ken	kenj (9738)
873354	2010-04-06 22:31:00	I agree pal,where else can one put it.? Anzac Day is coming up. Re-post it with it's own title. When we were kids (yeah, I know "back in my day") a day or so before Anzac Day the school assembly was usually addressed by a member of the RSA, they chose a good speaker. We were given a first hand account of what it was like, often by someone who was younger than some in the audience, when they went to serve the country. In today's PC environment I don't know if it is still done.	Marnie (4574)
873355	2010-04-06 22:38:00	Cic, you ARE a sentimental old devil. :thumbs:	Richard (739)
873356	2010-04-06 22:40:00	Anzac Day is coming up. Re-post it with it's own title. When we were kids (yeah, I know "back in my day") a day or so before Anzac Day the school assembly was usually addressed by a member of the RSA, they chose a good speaker. We were given a first hand account of what it was like, often by someone who was younger than some in the audience, when they went to serve the country. In today's PC environment I don't know if it is still done. Can't do that much now, the people who did it are largely done.	R2x1 (4628)
873357	2010-04-07 00:11:00	Cicero - did you know they are going to have a special Anzac Service in the Ohoka Hall on 23 April? It is especially to commemorate the soldiers who are in the photos around the walls and who left the district for WW1 but didn't come back. I first saw those photos over 60 years ago, and haven't seen them for about 50 years, but have never forgotten them.	John H (8)
873358	2010-04-07 00:23:00	As a small child in the 1950's I stood and watched the soldiers march on ANZAC day, and later, as a pre-teen, I marched in a brass band and played for them. My father never spoke of his experiences in the Western Desert, but he was one of the first soldiers into Rommel's headquarters after the Germans and Italians were driven out of Tobruk (and souvenired his battle maps off the wall, some of which I still have, others are now with the RSA). He is long gone now, like so many of his fellows who had years of their life taken away by their experiences. Not all wounds are physical, and some never heal. Now we take his medals to the ANZAC Day service and show them to the Flag. It is heartening to see a resurgence of interest in ANZAC Day, and of respect for the men and women who served. It is also heartening to see the increasing number of young people at the services, and those who make the trek to ANZAC Cove to honour the ANZACS and their one-time foes. It is one of the most profoundly sad places I have ever been, the other being Belsen concentration camp. They didn't fight to conquer, they fought for peace and freedom. Today, as you enjoy both, pause to remember those who secured it for you. It is all too easy to shrug it all off as tired history and of no relevance to today's world, but we are what we are because of what they were. Billy	Billy T (70)
873359	2010-04-07 00:34:00	Cicero - did you know they are going to have a special Anzac Service in the Ohoka Hall on 23 April? It is especially to commemorate the soldiers who are in the photos around the walls and who left the district for WW1 but didn't come back . I first saw those photos over 60 years ago, and haven't seen them for about 50 years, but have never forgotten them . I didn't know Johno,but will look into it . I thought old B's words were nicely put . He sometimes hits the spot!	Cicero (40)
873360	2010-04-07 00:44:00	We sure owe these soldiers big time most of them volunteered and were not conscripted. My uncle was in J force my grandfather fought in ww1 and ww2 was a machine gunner in France ww1 and and engineer officer in ww2. Just hope the japs, germans, hungarians, italians have learnt a lesson and dont try it on again.	prefect (6291)
873361	2010-04-07 01:21:00	I had three uncles who served in WW1 . One never talked about it, and another couldn't talk about anything else when he got into his older years . He was a machine gunner, which might account for why he couldn't stop crying when he talked about it to me . The third only talked about the pranks they got up to, most of which had to do with liberating booze (which is what he did with the rest of his life, really) . He reckoned he never shot anyone, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was the truth . He was the cheerful one of the three, all his life .	John H (8)
873362	2010-04-07 02:24:00	Can't do that much now, the people who did it are largely done. You are right about them being 'largely done', but it's part of the history of the (extra)ordinary men (and women) and what they did for this country.	Marnie (4574)
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