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Re: No ANZAC day thread? SHAME.
Reply #15 - Apr 26^th, 2011 at 11:27am

WWI - Let's celebrate our introduction to hating the French! Cheesy

In Robert Graves' biography ("Goodbye to all that") he describes a fellow veteran: One shell-shocked fellow said "Never war for me, never again. Unless it's against the French. If it's against the French I'll be there like a shot."

Their experience was things like the french refusing to lend them any trainst to ferry the wounded upline to the hospitals. And when they brought their OWN trains to do so, the French charged then rent for use of their railway lines. They watered the beer and wine and charged a fortune for it, and a host of other things.

Yet in other places in France, Allied war dead are still treated with great reverence and respect. A curious people.

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Reply #16 - Apr 27^th, 2011 at 1:58am

It_is_the_Darkness wrote on Apr 26^th, 2011 at 12:39am:

I don't like how they twist the facet of 'respecting' the Elderly for the benefit of ANZAC glory, either.

I think the S.E.S has done more for this country directly than any ANZAC act ...the lives they have saved count for something in a nation that struggles at times to have a substantial population growth without the need for immigration.

"ANZAC day?" Huh

"Ok, give us a Cookie and then bugger off with your desperate attempt for patriotism - American style." Roll Eyes

Right on. We should spare a thought for the people who protect us everyday, soldiers and police, who look after us when we're sick (doctors, nurses, ambos), the teachers and the technicians and everyone who has made excellent use of the time and safety that the ANZACs have bought, sometimes with their own lives.

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Please delete Gold Member Offline Please delete this smacking PROFILE Posts: 2936	Re: No ANZAC day thread? SHAME. Reply #17 - Apr 27^th, 2011 at 9:13am What a bizarre thread - now we are REQUIRED to honour the country's soldiery, not only implicitly, but EXPLICITLY?
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