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Re: Anzac Day
Reply #45 - Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 3:40pm

red baron wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 2:59pm:

Spot of Borg...In reply to your initial post; we pause for the Public Holiday to remember those that have paid the ultimate price for their Country.

If it wasn't for those kids on the Kokoda Track, you'd most probably be speaking Japanese or your great grandmother might have ended up on the wrong end of a Japanese bayonet.

So whilst the rest of the Nation takes pause, to thank the fallen for the ultimate price that they paid for our freedoms; perhaps you could do a bit of volunteer work in the local Hospital, to salve that terrible conscience you have, in having to take the day off.

Ah. Good to see another literary genius who reads and comprehends entire posts.

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Swagman Gold Member Offline Beware of cheap imitations...... Posts: 15095 Illawarra NSW Gender:	Re: Anzac Day Reply #46 - Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 3:45pm Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2012 at 1:34pm: No one is coming to harm me, I feel quite safe, so no one is saving me from the big bad terrorists. .......and why are you safe?
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FriYAY Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7395	Re: Anzac Day Reply #47 - Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 3:54pm A bit pedantic I know, but let’s not forget that New Guinea was far more than Kokoda. Milne Bay, Gona etc. Sacrifice Courage Mateship Endurance Lest we forget.
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Uncle Meat Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2434 Tasmania Gender:	Re: Anzac Day Reply #48 - Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 3:55pm Swagman wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 3:45pm: Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2012 at 1:34pm: No one is coming to harm me, I feel quite safe, so no one is saving me from the big bad terrorists. .......and why are you safe?
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Re: Anzac Day
Reply #49 - Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 4:09pm

Yes FriAYY...Yes and all those places you mentioned. Not that many people realise that it was the Australian Army in the form of those 18 to 21 year olds, who made up the bulk of our infantry in New Guinea, who were the first forces to stop the might of the Japanese Army.

Our 8th Division finally arrived from the Middle East to bolster our Forces but it was our kids who took on the best the Japs had and beat the bastards!

And they were the cream troops, the Japs had. They were fresh from butchering possibly millions of Chinese in mainland China.

It would be fanciful to think the same fate, would not have awaited our own families on the mainland. God bless those brave young souls, we owe them a debt we can never repay. The same debt is owed to all those who pick up arms in the name of their Country, they are not politicians and serve where they are told to serve. They are the bravest of the brave.

If you want to read about them..I recommend Kokoda by Peter Fitzsimmons...He humanises their story.

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Re: Anzac Day
Reply #50 - Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 4:22pm

red baron wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 4:09pm:

Yes FriAYY...Yes and all those places you mentioned. Not that many people realise that it was the Australian Army in the form of those 18 to 21 year olds, who made up the bulk of our infantry in New Guinea, who were the first forces to stop the might of the Japanese Army.

Our 8th Division finally arrived from the Middle East to bolster our Forces but it was our kids who took on the best the Japs had and beat the bastards!

And they were the cream troops, the Japs had. They were fresh from butchering possibly millions of Chinese in mainland China.

It would be fanciful to think the same fate, would not have awaited our own families on the mainland. God bless those brave young souls, we owe them a debt we can never repay. The same debt is owed to all those who pick up arms in the name of their Country, they are not politicians and serve where they are told to serve. They are the bravest of the brave.

If you want to read about them..I recommend Kokoda by Peter Fitzsimmons...He humanises their story.

Good book.

My brother takes groups of abused and disadvantaged kids to Kakoda, they are put with a mentor and all work as a team to get though the trek together.

This year will be his 6th trip.

Also good reading – A Bastard of a Place (author slips my mind at the moment)

My grand-dad was 2/14th.

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red baron Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10204 Blue Mountains Gender:	Re: Anzac Day Reply #51 - Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 4:31pm Then my friend FriYAY you have great genes!
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Re: Anzac Day
Reply #52 - Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 4:48pm

red baron wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 4:31pm:

Then my friend FriYAY you have great genes!

Thank you sir, I believe I have.

On another note…..

My better half’s dad was a policeman.

She tells me my snoring is comforting!

When pressed, she says that if she could hear her dad snoring, that meant he was home safe from work and she too could now sleep.

So many people condemn the police for their own narcissistic reasons, they really
have no idea.

I think she has great genes also.
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Re: Anzac Day
Reply #53 - Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 4:58pm

My grand-dad was in New Guinea in WW2.

I never knew him, he died in 1956, but Mom always
said it was the war that killed him, it just took a long
time to do it.

I've had mates and relatives in Korea and 'Nam.

Another mate's dad was in the Wehrmacht, and
another's was in the Luftwaffe. Another's mom
drove a T34 at the Battle of Kursk.

I take my hat off to ALL who served. Unreservedly.

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red baron Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10204 Blue Mountains Gender:	Re: Anzac Day Reply #54 - Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 7:44pm onya Kat! have a great Anzac Day! I'm off to march in Sydney this year. I normally do the local one in Springwood in the Mountains.
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Re: Anzac Day
Reply #56 - Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 9:17pm

FIRST GRAVE: It will make our heap of stones for ever England, apparently.

SECOND GRAVE: It can scarcely do that to my portion of it. I was a Turk.

FIRST GRAVE: What! A Turk! You a Turk? And I have lain beside you for seven years and never known!

SECOND GRAVE: How should you have known? What is there to know except that I am your brother?

FIRST GRAVE: I am yours...

SECOND GRAVE: All is dead except that. All graves are one. It is their unity that sanctifies them, and some day even the living will learn this.

FIRST GRAVE: Ah, but why can they not learn it while they are still alive?

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Re: Anzac Day
Reply #57 - Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 9:57pm

FriYAY wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 4:22pm:

red baron wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 4:09pm:

Yes FriAYY...Yes and all those places you mentioned. Not that many people realise that it was the Australian Army in the form of those 18 to 21 year olds, who made up the bulk of our infantry in New Guinea, who were the first forces to stop the might of the Japanese Army.

Our 8th Division finally arrived from the Middle East to bolster our Forces but it was our kids who took on the best the Japs had and beat the bastards!

And they were the cream troops, the Japs had. They were fresh from butchering possibly millions of Chinese in mainland China.

It would be fanciful to think the same fate, would not have awaited our own families on the mainland. God bless those brave young souls, we owe them a debt we can never repay. The same debt is owed to all those who pick up arms in the name of their Country, they are not politicians and serve where they are told to serve. They are the bravest of the brave.

If you want to read about them..I recommend Kokoda by Peter Fitzsimmons...He humanises their story.

Good book.

My brother takes groups of abused and disadvantaged kids to Kakoda, they are put with a mentor and all work as a team to get though the trek together.

This year will be his 6th trip.

Also good reading – A Bastard of a Place (author slips my mind at the moment)

My grand-dad was 2/14th.

My Great Uncle was 6th Div 2/2 .....killed in action 20/10/42 Templeton's Crossing on the Track he was 34 & his brother was 7th Div 2/3 Pnr. KIA (3 days later) 23/10/42 El Alamein aged 38 (not all were young fellas)

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Re: Anzac Day
Reply #58 - Apr 24^th, 2012 at 8:18am

Around 100 million died in total from wars last century.
The Germans had an automatic mobilisation and invasion order in 1914 which compelled war.
The French strangle-hold on German wealth after 1919 prompted Hitler.
The UK & US strangle-hold on Japan in 1930 prompted Peral Harbor.
Vietnam was to display the size of US testicles.
Lest we forget.

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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26460 Australia	Re: Anzac Day Reply #59 - Apr 24^th, 2012 at 8:19am red baron wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 7:44pm: onya Kat! have a great Anzac Day! I'm off to march in Sydney this year. I normally do the local one in Springwood in the Mountains. Huh. I used to be in the blue mountains city band and marched every year for a while. SOB
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