And before people here scream '''but the WAP was removed in the late 1960's''.... Let me ask you, was this done by referendum? Me thinks not.

It might have been better if you had have left it at "no one started an ANZAC day thread"

Was the rest of the world fighting for our White Australia Policy? I bet they didn't know that.

The very people who were fighting along side of us were the ones that the WAP was all about.

Are you upset because the Turks kicked our arse? you should be upset with the brits about that fiasco.

It's wrong to put your racist beliefs onto the ANZAC remembrance. To suggest that you know the attitudes or opinions of the men that fought in the trenches is atrocious!

perceptions_now wrote on Apr 25^th, 2011 at 12:38pm:



To all the diggers and their kiwi counterparts..*whispers* from a kiwi.

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

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Apr 25^th, 2011 at 5:22pm:



thank you pansi...lest we forget

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
     Between the crosses, row on row,
   That mark our place; and in the sky
   The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
   Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
        In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
   The torch; be yours to hold it high.
   If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
        In Flanders fields.

pansi was that mess really young australian made?

who ever made that mess does not appreciate the significance of the site...actually, any other site associated with great sacrifice is pretty much "huh" "what" with my generation...we arent taught in schools about these things, it doesnt seem to be very important. i dont know why.

looks like a yobbo mecca

quite appropriate no?

so be it

youth are seldom wrong a reflection of society party on

and so it is

namaste

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Apr 25^th, 2011 at 12:44pm:


You show a tenuous grasp of history pansi. The Gallipoli campaign was a rare Ottoman win in a war which saw them soundly beaten, and also one of the few campaigns where the defenders lost more men than the attackers.
I'm also pretty sure my granddad was not thinking about fighting for a multicultural Australia, or even his unborn children and grandchildren, when the Germans were shooting at him on the western front. In fact, I would bet anything that he considered the white race superior to any other, as was normal at the time.