I wrote the article partly out of frustration, because a lot of kids aren’t being taught Australian history.

It’s great that three of the nations involved there, Australia, Turkey and New Zealand all used it as a spur to develop a national consciousness, rather than just being part of someone else’s empire!

Ataturk’s word’s: ‘there is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us…’ should be pondered by everyone. Especially those who would send the cream of their youth to war!

The song was written and sung by Eric Bogel, a Scotsman, and it has become an Australian anti war anthem.

Look forward to a future of peace? I’d like to think so…

Nicely written! You must have been having one of those sentimental moments. Funny thing, we were talking about Anzac Day at our place today, not in the context that you have written here though.

That’s a great clip you posted too. I hadn’t heard that before.

I don’t think I have seen those figures, but I know there were hefty casualties and the death toll was also astronomical. There was no chance for our soldiers at Anzac Cove as I have seen on documentaries.

I admire those men (and some women later on) who have sacrificed their lives for their countries, but what a waste of human life!! War is a tragedy that should never happen but there are those who think they know better and send troops into countries to fight all for the sake of religion, politics or oil in most cases.

Yes, remember it and honour those soldiers, but the past is the past and better left there. Let’s look towards a future of peace.

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