• 100th Anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign.
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[quote][quote][img]http://i.imgur.com/EABufjt.jpg[/img][/quote] Officials have begun to arrive at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli ahead of the expected 10,000-strong crowd who will turn out for the dawn service to mark a century since the Anzac Day landings. This year marks 100 years since Australian and New Zealand soldiers landed at Gallipoli on April 25 in 1915. Some 8700 Australians died during the eight-month First World War campaign alongside 2700 New Zealanders. It’s estimated up to 87,000 Turks lost their lives. Source(s): [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-24/australians-arrive-on-gallipoli-peninsula-for-anzac-day-service/6419830[/url] [url]http://www.news.com.au/national/anzac-day/anzac-day-2015-100th-anniversary-of-gallipoli-starts-with-dawn-services-across-australia/story-fnmewwpe-1227319860681[/url][/quote] [quote][b]Ode of Remembrance[/b] They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. 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. Lest we forgot..[/quote] Sam Neill did a fantastic documentary for this anniversary: [url]http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/why-anzac-with-sam-neill/DO1308H001S00[/url] (If the above link is location-locked you should be able to get around it with a proxy) More info on the Gallipoli Campaign: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign[/url] More info on the ANZAC's [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_and_New_Zealand_Army_Corps[/url]
There's banners for it all over the streets and today I got woken up by my friends in the Air cadets snapchatting me about how early they had to get up :v:. But really it should be pretty good this year. Even people who normally don't give a shit are planning on going to this year's dawn ceremonies.
[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;47593968]There's banners for it all over the streets and today I got woken up by my friends in the Air cadets snapchatting me about how early they had to get up :v:.[/QUOTE] They should've woken you up with a boombox blasting Sabaton. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOCe2Y7iVF8[/media] Also, Wednesday marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres.
[QUOTE=Govna;47594049]They should've woken you up with a boombox blasting Sabaton. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOCe2Y7iVF8[/media] Also, Wednesday marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres.[/QUOTE] I remember learning about Ypres in Modern History at high school -- so much mustard gas.
At the same time, the Armenian genocide 100th anniversary commemoration is also taking place.
[QUOTE=godfatherk;47594127]At the same time, the Armenian genocide 100th anniversary commemoration is also taking place.[/QUOTE] We discussed this in a seminar today, didn't they move the Gallipoli anniversary forward in Turkey?
Went to my local dawn service this morning, it was cold but it was humble. The crowd was massive and according to frequents of the dawn service, every year the crowd gets bigger. Police who participated in the ceremony had their full utility belt on including their pistol, nobody is taking any chances of some clown who wants to disrupt today
I live in Canberra, they really decked out the National War Memorial for the service. It was bloody huge. It was also like 2C this morning. If you've never been to the NWM, i recommend it. They have an actual boat from the Gallipoli campaign landings. It's full of bullet holes.
There's an interesting show that was on some Australian channel called Gallipoli, I started watching it. It's an interesting fictional look at the battle. Still, 100 years. It's weird, since I'm extremely interested in WWI, far more than any other subject, and to be able to witness the centenary is just mindblowingly interesting to me. [I]Oh mothers wipe your tears, your sons will rest a million years. Found their peace at last as foe turned to friend and forgive, and they knew they'd die...[/I]
Watching it live on ABC 24. Starting the call of remembrance now.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;47594210]Went to my local dawn service this morning, it was cold but it was humble. The crowd was massive and according to frequents of the dawn service, every year the crowd gets bigger. Police who participated in the ceremony had their full utility belt on including their pistol, nobody is taking any chances of some clown who wants to disrupt today[/QUOTE] There was a cop at City Hall with a pistol on both thighs AND a taser on his front pouch. He was built like a bear too, no way someone would fuck around with that guy nearby. The later parade was pretty great, first time seeing these in person was awesome. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/111996868/2015-1/General/IMAG0408.jpg[/t][t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/111996868/2015-1/General/IMAG0407.jpg[/t]
Turkey's dawn service went to plan, I'm glad
IIRC there was a big demonstration outside the Turkish Embassy in the U.S. this week. The fact that Turkey still doesn't recognize the Armenian Genocide, or worse, tried to justify it, is disgusting and problematic to relations. Also, remember to light a candle in your window, do your part to help remember.
This is the first year Ireland will recognize the 3,000 Irish men who died at Gallipoli, so the president and some army staff has gone over to the ceremony. It's been too long a time coming if you ask me.
At the risk of sounding like a right cunt i do apologize, I'm not meaning to offend anyone or belittle any nations contribution in the war. But the thing that has always stuck me is the dead from other nations in this battle (UK, France, Ottoman) barely got any recognition. I've spoken about this with a few people over the past few weeks and no one i asked had any idea the UK was even there let alone lost something like 40,000 men. To think that all those lives have nearly been forgotten is quite harrowing.
It has a lot to do with how much it shaped the national psyche of Australia and New Zealand.
I know man not having a go at that at all, it was a big point in history which launched the two nations onto the world stage and thinks it's great to respect the occasion, it's just upsetting that as an indirect result of that a lot of lives have all but been forgotten.
I think it's because Britain and France had innumerable losses across the entire war, and therefore grieve over all those at once, whereas Gallipoli was really the only major battle ANZACs took massive losses in AFAIK.
[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;47598716]I think it's because Britain and France had innumerable losses across the entire war, and therefore grieve over all those at once, whereas Gallipoli was really the only major battle ANZACs took massive losses in AFAIK.[/QUOTE] It was a defeat too, much like the Dieppe Raid, as awful as it sounds defeats and military disasters are less likely to be remembered than victories.
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