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Posted:Apr 24, 2008 10:28 pm
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What is Anzac Day?
Anzac Day - 25 April - is probably Australia's most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first nationally significant military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during WW1. Anzac stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces quickly became known as Anzacs and the pride they soon took in that name endures to this day.
Why is this day so special to Australians?
When war broke out in 1914 Australia had been a federal commonwealth for only 13 years. The new national government was eager to establish its reputation among the nations of the world. In 1915 Australian and New Zealand soldiers formed part of the allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula to open the way to the Black Sea for the allied navies. The plan was to capture Constantinople (now Istanbul), capital of the Ottoman Empire and an ally of Germany. They landed at Gallipoli on April 25, meeting fierce resistance from the Turkish defenders. What had been planned as a bold stroke to knock Turkey out of the war quickly became a stalemate, and the campaign dragged on for eight months. At the end of 1915 the allied forces were evacuated after both sides had suffered heavy casualties and endured great hardships. News of the landing at Gallipoli made a profound impact on Australians at home and April 25 quickly became the day on which Australians remembered the sacrifice of those who had died in war.
What does it mean today?
Australians recognise April 25 as an occasion of national commemoration. Commemorative services are held at dawn, the time of the original landing, across the nation. Later in the day ex-servicemen and women meet and join in marches through the major cities and many smaller centres. Commemorative ceremonies are held at war memorials around the country. It is a day when Australians reflect on the many different meanings of war.
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I AM PROUD !!!!!!!!
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Posted:Apr 24, 2008 10:09 pm
Last Updated:Apr 29, 2008 3:02 pm 4622 Views
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ANZAC Day is the 25th of April. It is a day that is set aside in both New Zealand and Australia to think about and honour those who have fought for our freedom. ANZAC stands for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. ANZAC Day is a public holiday.
ANZAC day is strongly linked to the landing of the ANZAC forces at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles in 1915. ANZAC Day was first celebrated in 1916 with memorial services, commemorating the lives lost in the 8 month period spent by ANZAC forces on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Pressure was brought to bear by returned soldiers and their organisations, and the day became a public holiday in the early 1920s. Although the term "ANZAC" only officially referred to those who fought in WWI it was later decided that the day should also officially remember those who served in WWII. These days it also incorporates the men and women who served in later wars such as Vietnam and Korea; and those who have served in actions such as "Desert Storm", and peace keeping operations such as those in Bosnia and Bougainville.
Most communities in New Zealand have at their heart a memorial commemorating the war dead of the area, and around these wreath laying ceremonies are held each ANZAC Day. For a while it was feared that ANZAC Day would become less important as the remaining WWI veterans leave us one by one, but the crowds at the main ANZAC Day parades (where the veterans and other service organisations march) have been swelling again in the past few years to the point where some people have suggested that ANZAC Day should be made our National Day. It has been particularly good to note that many of those attending services are young people and families, which bodes well for the future. On ANZAC Day 1996 there were still three NZ Gallipoli veterans alive. Since then the last two still residing in NZ have died. The last, Alfred Douglas Dibley, (Doug), died Dec 18th 1997 and was posthumously awarded the QSO for public services in the 1998 New Years Honours list.
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lest we forget
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Posted:Apr 24, 2008 10:02 pm
Last Updated:Apr 26, 2008 6:21 pm 3718 Views
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The ANZAC Dedication:
For the Fallen
by Laurence Binyon
They shall not grow 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.
We will remember them.
Elsdon Best, a New Zealand writer and poet, wrote these words on the death of his friend Paul Freyberg (brother of Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C.). Paul was mortally wounded while fighting at Basseville, France, in 1917. (Basseville is 10 miles south of Ypres)
Today the lonely winds are loose
And crying goes the rain.
While here we walk the field they knew
The dead who died in pain.
The fields that wait the slow hours long
For sounds that shall not come.
In other fields, in other earth
The laughing hearts are dumb.
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MMMMMMMMMMMM!!!! PIGS?????
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Posted:Mar 14, 2008 2:21 am
Last Updated:Mar 30, 2008 5:22 am 3740 Views
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Some seen before, but what the hell!
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the equivalent energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it! I think I may even have produced the odd individual Mega-ton fart myself from time to time. )
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out of the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. [/COLOR](Creepy!)
(I'm still not over that pig.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour
(Don't try this at home, though maybe at work.)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(A female who initiates sex? I just don't believe it!)
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes...lucky pig! Can you imagine?)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality life...quality over quantity)
Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.(Hmmmmmm...... so if you can also breathe through your ears fellas you'll be beating the women off with a shitty stick!)
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing?)
A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. [/COLOR](I know some people like that.)
Starfish have no brains (I know some people like that too.)
Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig?)
(and three cheers for that pig!)
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I DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING !!!!!!
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Posted:Feb 8, 2008 4:30 am
Last Updated:Apr 21, 2008 1:57 am 4530 Views
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I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
While you're far away dreaming
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lost in this moment forever
Every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure
Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Lying close to you feeling your heart beating
And I'm wondering what you're dreaming
Wondering if it's me you're seeing
Then I kiss your eyes
And thank God we're together
I just want to stay with you in this moment forever
Forever and ever
Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
I don't want to miss one smile
I don't want to miss one kiss
I just want to be with you
Right here with you, just like this
I just want to hold you close
Feel your heart so close to mine
And just stay here in this moment
For all the rest of time
Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
I don't want to miss a thing
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sorry i didn't show for work but!!!!!!!!
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Posted:Jan 30, 2008 2:25 am
Last Updated:Feb 5, 2008 11:50 am 3995 Views
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This is why I didn't show up for work yesterday. I was cleaning out my wife's grandpa's cellar and found 12
bottles of his home-bottled grape wine under the steps.
My wife told me to empty the contents of each and every bottle down the sink, or else.
I agreed to do the unpleasant task.
I withdrew the cork form the first bottle and poured the contents down the sink,
with the exception of one glass, which I drank. I extracted the cork from the second bottle,
did likewise, and drank one glass, just to check the taste to see if the old fellow knew his wine making.
He did.
I then opened the third bottle, and poured it, too, down the sink,
but not until drinking one full glass to check the purity. It was very good.
did this, also with the fourth bottle. One glass for myself, and the rest down the sink.
I pulled the bottle from the cork of the next, and drank one sink out of it and threw the rest down the glass.
I pulled the sink out of the next glass and poured the cork from the bottle, then corked the sink with the glass,
bottled the drink and drank the pour.
When I had everything emptied, I steadied the house with one hand, counted the bottles, corks,
glasses and sinks with the other, which were 29, and as the house came by I counted them again,
and finally had all the houses in one bottle, which I drank.
I felt so foolish that I couldn't go upstairs and congratulate my wife to tell her what a great winemaker
her grandpa was. I will do that after climbing the basement steps the next time they come by.
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but maybe a GOLD hearted witch
(remember honey?)
