Anzac day 2012

[George S.]

The soldiers who served on the Gallipoli Peninsula created a legend, adding the word ‘Anzac' to our vocabulary, and creating the notion of the Anzac spirit
What does Anzac Day mean to you today?

[Risto the Great]

I used to think it helped define the Australian spirit. I take some inspiration from it. But whenever I hear about a nation's spirit, I tend to accept it is really human spirit. But it also represents a bitter pill with Australians making the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of their (incompetent) British colonial masters.

I like Ataturk's quote at the time:

I do not order you to fight, I order you to die. In the time which passes until we die, other troops and commanders can come forward and take our places.

Notwithstanding this:

They shall grow not 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.