Anzac Day 2023

[Tiger_Fanatic3]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1650620676141613057

 

[Demps]

Lest we Forget
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[tiger_one]

Enjoy all your moments today - they are a gift from days gone, from boys and heroes gone, each one of them.

Lest we forget.

 

[Curaeus]

My late dad lugged a heavy radio set through the mud of New Guinea during some of the worst days of the Second World War at the young age of 23 and came back deeply affected by the kind of experiences nobody should ever have to go through. For years he wouldn't even watch the Anzac Day March. Today I remember him and all those brave men and women who served in the defence of this country in all wars. Lest we forget.

 

[tiger_one]

My late dad lugged a heavy radio set through the mud of New Guinea during some of the worst days of the Second World War at the young age of 23 and came back deeply affected by the kind of experiences nobody should ever have to go through. For years he wouldn't even watch the Anzac Day March. Today I remember him and all those brave men and women who served in the defence of this country in all wars. Lest we forget.

You see the son, you see the father.
For you champion @Curaeus and all of us, sons of fathers.

 

[Winston Churchill]

Was Churchill’s Dardanelles offensive doomed to fail?

The Dardanelles campaign - Churchill's war-winning masterplan or ill-conceived folly?

www.history.co.uk

I cant apologise enough.





On a serious note, my uncle was a digger at Gallipoli and my father served in WW2, this date will always be a special day around the Winston household.

Lest we forget

 

[Winston Churchill]

"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore, rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours... You the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well." Kemal Atatürk 1934- Lieutenant Colonel, Ottoman 19th Infantry Division, Turkish President 1923-1938

 

[Spacecub]

Enjoy all your moments today - they are a gift from days gone, from boys and heroes gone, each one of them.

Lest we forget.

Couldn't have said it any better tiger_one beautiful words, to all our past and present service men an women enjoy your day, we're proud of you all thank you

 

[tiger_one]

Just a small thing, if you get a minute:

My cousin - Corporal John (Jack) Mackey:

Corporal John Bernard Mackey

www.awm.gov.au

 

[Suzie-Q]

Wow T-1. Lest We Forget ❤️
Both grandfathers fought in WW1. Pop earnt the MM. His younger brother "Happy" was KIA 3 days before his 19th birthday. ANZAC Day is important in our home, too.

 

[bathursttiger1]

My late dad lugged a heavy radio set through the mud of New Guinea during some of the worst days of the Second World War at the young age of 23 and came back deeply affected by the kind of experiences nobody should ever have to go through. For years he wouldn't even watch the Anzac Day March. Today I remember him and all those brave men and women who served in the defence of this country in all wars. Lest we forget.

My father and two of his brothers served in New Guinea, he was the only one to come home.
He never went to a Anzas day march at all.

 

[twentyforty]

Wow T-1. Lest We Forget ❤️
Both grandfathers fought in WW1. Pop earnt the MM. His younger brother "Happy" was KIA 3 days before his 19th birthday. ANZAC Day is important in our home, too.

We will never forget.

 

[Curaeus]

My father and two of his brothers served in New Guinea, he was the only one to come home.
He never went to a Anzas day march at all.

Never talked about the war either, not once. I believe a lot of veterans felt the same.

 

[jadtiger]

Never talked about the war either, not once. I believe a lot of veterans felt the same.

My father was the same,he would not have spoken 10 words to me about WW2 and he was shot and spent over 6 months in a POW camp in Germany after he was captured in France.

 

[bathursttiger1]

Never talked about the war either, not once. I believe a lot of veterans felt the same.

💯

 

[Halbrowne61]

Just lightening the mood, two really good games of footy yesterday.
If Saints play like that against us it will be another spanking.
Was impressed with the variations in the Warriors attack, in the first half, tough call against them but they improved big time under Webster.