#ANZAC: "year after year, the numbers grow fewer, who remember what it was we're not forgetting"

"The Victim" by sculptor Rainer Hoff, inside the Australian War Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney.

In a way, it's encouraging that every year we start Anzac Day by celebrating the chaotic dawn of a pointless and utterly tragic military campaign that crippled the best of two young nations. This is not a victory march, but a sober reminder of destruction. war.
"He's fine.
"I did not forget it!" we said"
“Every year they say. However, each year the number of people who remember what we do not forget decreases...

ANZAC MYTHOLOGY The Battle of Canakkale was the birth of two nations.
"[And] the reason they were abandoned was not to defeat the Huns, but to save the king [and] offer Constantinople to Russia...as a selfless gift to Europe's most autocratic 'ally'." This is the price to pay . by the blood of young Australians, New Zealanders and Englishmen and their families.
In the end, the occupation [of the Gallipoli peninsula] was decided partly because it was very difficult to stop the plans once they started in any bureaucracy, but also partly as a selfless gift to the most autocratic "ally". "In a Europe that shows no signs of earning Britain's trust, this is the blood price of young Australians, New Zealanders and British people and their families ."
"At that time it was just our concern."
“This would never have happened. Never could.
“Instead, everything went wrong. In the end, the one thing everyone should be proud of is a successful and well-executed deactivation.
“It was a bloody waste of a young life that brought nothing, accomplished nothing, failed to reveal anything. It was a complete and utter disaster, but at least now, dear reader, the full cause of the great confusion may be clearer. .
"However, there is little reason to recall the confusion that the 'birth' of our nation (somehow) failed."

~ NO Recover PC Messages' What should I remember? ' and ' What do the ANZACs fight for , Grandpa? '

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