Can someone explain to me what Anzac day
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Topic: Can someone explain to me what Anzac day
Posted By: SMoody
Subject: Can someone explain to me what Anzac day
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 12:32pm
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 12:34pm
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Hi Shirena Check out http://www.rsa.org.nz/remem/anzac_intro.html - http://www.rsa.org.nz/remem/anzac_intro.html it gives a good history and explanation. Have a great day! Sam ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 12:35pm
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It stands for Austrailan New Zealand Army Corp. On the 25th of April (sorry can't remember what year) troops landed a Gallipoli (in Turkey) and heaps died. It is own way our remembering all the people that have died at war. This year is one of the very few that I won't be going to the dawn parade. I play in a brass band so I have been to a number of dawn services. If you are awake head down to one in you area and you'll learn a lot about it, or watch TV 1 tomorrow morning from 5.15am they are having coverage of the services. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 12:41pm
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 12:42pm
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I usually go to the Dawn Parade but I suspect this year I'll be watching it on TV.
I love ANZAC day, there's something really patriotic about it. I've been to the dawn service at Martin Pl in Syndey and it is really eerie, it starts at 4am and you see the sun gradually coming up and you can almost feel the ghosts around you. Eeeee, giving myself goosebumps  -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 12:48pm
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(1915)
It's the equivalent of Veteran's Day in the States or Remembrance Day (held in other countries). ANZAC Day - 25 April - marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. In NZ and Australia the day also signifies a 'coming of age' for the colonial countries and is remembered for the sacrifice the soldiers and their families made. 8556 NZ forces landed: 4852 NZ forces wounded, 2721 NZ forces fatalities Check out this site http://www.anzac.govt.nz/ - ANZAC DAY - a guide for New Zealanders ------------- |
Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 12:51pm
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They shall grow not 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. (From 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon) "Anzac Day mirrors the soul of our nation, And shows the price it was willing to pay, To secure our freedom, knowing if it was lost, That soul would sicken, and would wither away" (Bernard Sprunt) ------------- |
Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 1:06pm
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Thanks everyone. Will go check the site out. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 1:29pm
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Gee thanks Emeldee, now I'm crying. For the Fallen does it to me every time A couple of years ago I went and listened to an Anzac poetry reading, it was really special, made me quite reflective. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 1:37pm
| I had almost forgotten that tomorrow I have to get up at some ungodly hour to go in the anzac parade in my parents hometown. I always walk with my grandad. Lucky this post has reminded me! |
Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 1:47pm
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I was talking to the preteen last night about ANZAC Day (he had homework to do about it) and asked him how he would feel if his dad, brothers or even himself were put on a ship to go half way around the world to fight a war that they may not come back from. He said that it was stupid and he just wouldn't go...to which I said - the people that chose to fight in the war were fighting for our way of life and freedom. They sacrificed everything so that people in later generations (like he and I) would be able to live a better life. He grunted at me. It might sink through.
In any case, tomorrow I'll be thinking of my l'il (who's really big now) cousin Nick who is currently serving in the Australian military and stationed in Iraq and our Poppa who served in Europe and Africa in WW2 and died before we were born. ------------- |
Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 2:20pm
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I'll be supporting DH at the Burnham dawn service - he's in the army and always does the dawn parade (they rotate where) if he's in the country. It's very emotional, but I do love going to the RSA afterwards and seeing all of the older veterans wearing their medals with pride.
The last post (played with the bugle) always chokes me up. They play it at military funerals and it was at one of DH's friends funerals - a very sobering tune. |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 2:22pm
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As I have been going to the Feilding dawn service since I was 13 and i've only missed 2 (When I had Andrew and now this one), I can stand there freezing cold and say the words along with the minister. I really enjoy ANZAC day and did want to take Andrew and Josh to one but DH won't come with me over to Feidling and I don't really want to go over by myself. The bribery of a free breakfast didn't help the cause. I'm watching the one on SKY news tomorrow, so i'm guessing its the Sydney one. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 3:29pm
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I always play the pipes in the ANZAC parade but this year I am not sure if I can. However reading your posts has made me decided that I am going to have a damn good try to get enough air into them tonight and hope I can play tomorrow....if I can fit my kilt that it
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Posted By: Spudling
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 7:25pm
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I have been luckly enough to have been to ANZAC Cove and it is the most emotional place I have ever been to and one of the most emotional days I have ever had. The turks have preserved the area so well and look after it with pride. You just say you are a kiwi and they shower you with so much respect and love it is weird.
A quote that is enscripted on a big plaque on your way to the cove is one that gets me every time I look back at my photos and read it. "Those heros 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 Johnnys and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the Mothers who send your 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" Ataturk 1934 ------------- http://tickers.families.com"> 
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 8:17pm
| Shirena, there is a service at the,..oh whats it called?!!,..that hill in Howick, just before you get to the main st with the shops! Lol ,..sorry,..mummy brain! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 24 April 2007 at 10:31pm
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Maya painted a poppy at preschool today and when I arrived to pick her up they were playing the national anthem. Gave me goosebumps all over again. LOL at Maya tho, she knows all the words in English and Maori and came home and told Daddy all about Anzac day. Too cute.
My grandfather was a spitfire pilot in WW2 and was injured parachuting out in 1944. He served in Burma and India with the British RAF. There's a story about him being in training with the RNZAF and he stole a plane one night and landed it on the main street of Hawera so the RNZAF booted him out but told him to sign up with the RAF instead (I think they were passing the buck, by all accounts he was a real maverick). He passed away in January '03 6 weeks before Maya was born, and I've worn his medals to the dawn parade at Martin Place a couple of times. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: Spudling
Date Posted: 25 April 2007 at 7:33am
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I just got back from the New Plymouth Dawn parade and it was a beautiful sunrise and a wonderful service. Cailin was a treasure and just sat there quite happy just looking at everything, I did think though that I might have had the baby when the guns went off.
Emma, i hope you managed to make it to the parade and got to wear your Grandfathers medals with pride...what a honour. Lest we forget ------------- http://tickers.families.com">
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 25 April 2007 at 8:10am
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I'm going to do it! I went to band practice last night and while they were hard to blow Ithink I will manage. With lots of safety pins and a little modification I can get my kilt on.....and look pregnant not just huge (very important distiction). Oh and our parade is a leisurely 10.30am one.
Hope every one has I good day. |
Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 25 April 2007 at 9:24am
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It doesn't matter where I am, or what I am doing ...if I hear the last post It seems to go straight through you. ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 25 April 2007 at 10:43am
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I watched the services on TV, The one at martin Point in Sydney was amazing. Even thou it was raining to was so moving. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Spudling
Date Posted: 25 April 2007 at 11:53am
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the last post gets me everytime too.
I was trying not to cry this morning but with the combination of no sleep, getting up at 5.15, pregnancy hormones and the last post there wasn't much chance I was going to stay dried eyed...ah well, nobody cares do they ------------- http://tickers.families.com">
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 25 April 2007 at 12:01pm
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I did it! And I am so pleased I did. So Peanut has now experienced his/her first ANZAC parade and I will proudly say my baby didnt let out a peep, even when the guns went off (followed by howling from every child)
The last post gets me but that poem does more. |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 25 April 2007 at 1:08pm
| we went to the local Maori Battalion Marae for the service today (at the reasonable hour of 9am) and it was incredible. they have all the names of the soldiers who went to the war and most of them are people I know the families of. It is crazy as Manutuke is SMALL - and there was at least one from each house that went to the war. incredible to think about how people even back here coped without the workforce, without the support. Can't imagine Lewis saying, okay you've got the kids - see you in six years"....Maori TV has Excellent coverage |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 25 April 2007 at 1:23pm
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I saw that Maori TV had good coverage. They were coving the Feilding parade as the school student doing the speech this year is from Turkey. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 25 April 2007 at 2:41pm
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Had to get up at 4am and help DH get ready. He looks very lovely in his army suit. Bribed my sister with free breakfast to go out to Burnham with me. Was a lovely service, and very well choreographed demonstrations, but I do prefer the one in Cathedral Square as you can't see at Burnham (no lights etc).
The one thing that did annoy me was all the army brats left unattended and they (10-14 year olds that should know better) were talking and giggling through the whole service, and making heaps of noise during the minute's silence. Unfortunately, my brat of a cousin was one of them! Had a little nana nap when I got home, and DH has just got home from doing other parades around the district, so he's napping now! |