WE WILL REMEMBER THEM--100 YEARS ON

[kahnjar1]

Originally Posted by kahnjar1

Today is April 25th, the day ANZAC (New Zealand and Australian) and other Allied troops landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in what became known as World War 1.
The rest is history......
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 MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/anzac-day/introduction

Another year passes but have we really learned anything............................

[Ian]

Lovely dawn service this morning in our small hamlet outside Melbourne. It had only about 250 total residents in the 1940s, but the town lost 38 killed during WWII--more than half of the young men of fighting age.