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June Tabor's version of this had me blubbing like a baby
First bit - 50,000 Australian troops killed? 😕
Another enduring ww1 myth I suppose - the facts are terrible enough, why do people feel the need to exaggerate them?
That was my first thought aswell actually.
My Grandmother's brother was captured there and spent the rest of the war as a POW.
When he got home he ended up in a mental hospital, where he killed himself.
If may of us were 80 years younger...
"the war to end all wars"
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Businesses here shut this morning, a little different to the UK where I recall being told that in one local town they stopped the Remembrance Day parade because of poor attendance.
Was a Beaver Scout leader and we would support the parade - will never forget the mother of one of our 6 year old Beaver's asking if it was OK if she sat with him in church because his Dad had been killed in Afghanistan
I was in Sydney during Anzac day 7 years ago, it seemed to be a day where everyone got dressed up and drank until oblivion, seemed very little to do with remembrance. I think our Remembrance Sunday is more low key which I feel is more appropriate in remembering servicemen and women who have died for this country.
it seemed to be a day where everyone got dressed up and drank until oblivion
So like every other non working day ?
I will never ever forget standing at the cemeteries as a 15 year old bot looking at the sheer size of the places and the sheer number and realising that this was one days worth of death in one place
Stood at the Menin gate hearing the last post seeing the size of that and it was only the names of the people who passed that way ....First time I cried for a reason like that. Such a waste and such a tragedy.
Made me a life long pacifist and what harry said, we are lucky to have not lived through one ourselves.