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Discussion in 'Oceania Discussion Boards' started by YouAgain, Apr 24, 2002.

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  1. YouAgain

    YouAgain Jedi Master star 5

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    Dec 20, 2001
    What do You guys think of it


    Its pretty cool that we get a free holiday just because a couple of thousand of NZers died in a war 100 years ago (Joking)


    No but really

    Did any one go to any dawn parades ? (um I don?t know how to spell that)
     
  2. Humble extra

    Humble extra Jedi Youngling star 5

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    Jun 12, 1999
    nah, i was going to but none of my friends or flatmates wanted to, and i have to work from lunchtime, so i flagged it
     
  3. Darth_Graal

    Darth_Graal Jedi Padawan star 4

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    Nov 19, 2001
    I think its very important to remember that so many people died to allow us to live the way we live today.....

    "They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun and in the morning
    We will remember them."

    ............................................

    ON CHUNUK BAIR

    On blood rock ground and desperate sill
    good Kiwi men and Turkish shell
    closed their ranks in the dawn-bright sun
    and turned the gullies and ridge-back spurs
    into killing grounds and the halls of hell.

    A relentless squandering of young life -
    three hundred gallant Kiwi boys,
    their soldier's blood runnelling
    in falling sheets to ravines below,
    their dreams sucked up in bitter noise.

    Dominions' sons erupting from the ground,
    blades thirsty for the tempering chest,
    charging bitter yards to enemy's trench,
    scythed down like the flowers of the field
    in tears on the broken earth's breast.

    Their bodies slumping without grace
    and the agony dimming within their eyes
    failing at last loose-limbed down
    the cruel steep slopes of Chunuk Bair
    in a welter of steel and snuffed out lives.

    Machine-guns stitching the already dead
    in corpse stench mounds and ravaged face,
    the horror of it all forever engraved
    upon the souls of the charging men
    who sweated fear and prayed for grace.

    And out at sea in Gallipoli's lee
    sat the general and sipped his gin,
    waved his cane and committed the blokes
    to outrageous slaughter upon the hills
    where Anzac birthed in the dreadful din.

    True men lie in gully shaded graves,
    the broken artifacts of man's war game,
    untimely wrapped in the torn land's breast
    now quiet and still in the winds of time
    and Chunuk Bair your Anzac fame.

    © John A. Moller
    Whiskey Two Company RNZIR
     
  4. C_Minor

    C_Minor Jedi Master star 3

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    May 21, 2001
    Yeah, I went to the one outside Parliament. Hell, what all those guys did for us, least I can do is get up early once a year.
     
  5. Chansplace

    Chansplace Jedi Padawan star 4

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    Jan 2, 2001
    I feel kinda bad, instead of attending the dawn parade I lined up outside hoyts. [face_plain]
     
  6. SithForceLord

    SithForceLord Jedi Master star 6

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    Jul 2, 2001
    It was a day of rememberance. We had pancakes for brunch.

    But seriously, thanks to all those brave men.

     
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