ANZAC Day

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ANZAC Day, Dawn Service

DeadpoolPosted: 24 Apr 2006, 3:26pm

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Since I just spent all my money on a mates 21st this weekend, I will probably be getting to town (the train station at least) around 5:45am unless I manage to scam some money off of some members of my family and find a way to get there earlier. I might have to get your number Mayday so I can buzz you when I get close to town to find out where you guys are for the dawn service. It will be my first one I attend in the city for years and I don't want to miss it.

cammyxxooPosted: 24 Apr 2006, 3:32pm

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QUOTE(Suzi Q @ Apr 21 2006, 01:48 PM)

i have from an early age ...... woken up in the early am of Anzac day , after our late night Anzac Eve ritual of polishing our grandfathers and great grandfathers medals ........
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LEST WE FORGET !

Awesome Suzi :) I've been to a few myself, just to watch, not too march. Quite a moving experience :)

MaydayPosted: 24 Apr 2006, 3:42pm

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QUOTE(Mayday @ Apr 21 2006, 11:45 AM)

OK... looks like there may be a few interested parties for the City Dawn service.

I will suggest that everyone meets at 0530 on the SOUTH EASTERN corner of Gawler Place and North Terrace.

Dont be late, and dont call me after the service starts to ask for directions because I wont answer. I will answer calls until about 0545 in case people get lost. Dress Warmly because its going to be FUCKING COLD.

*Bump*

Look forward to seeing you all there.

If you need my number, PM me, otherwise find someone else who is going and tag along with them. I dont mind helping out with people finding their way, but I wont answer my phone once the service begins!

trashy_chicaPosted: 24 Apr 2006, 4:11pm

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will be heading in for the first time, methinks. city service, will even try to ride in! to warm up.

PrattyPosted: 24 Apr 2006, 4:18pm

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Ill be 'digging' out my old gone but not forgotten Grand Fathers medals out once again as I do every year and sit silently at home and remember not just what he did for our country but how he helped shape me, teach me and be part of walking me through the ealy stages of life. Pitty he died so young. Good old Grandpa P-Ratt.

I was left his medals when he died and knowing that he never marched and never would Ive kept his medals away from the rest of the family so no one will ever march with them. He disagreed with marching and saw the march as a celebration of war and was to painful. Both my Grandfathers have this opinion and I respect that.

MaydayPosted: 24 Apr 2006, 4:25pm

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Wont argue with mate.

Everyone has their own way of dealing with things Nothing wrong with yours...

JayVeePosted: 24 Apr 2006, 5:02pm

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will maybe walk down and have a look after i finish work.. thats if we have extended hours.
never been to the city serive.. always local and then to the RSL after when grandpa was still with us.

DeadpoolPosted: 24 Apr 2006, 10:25pm

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Sorry guys, I don't think I will be able to make it. I am in so much pain right now that I think I am gonna take a panediene forte or two and just crash for the night and hope I am up in time for it.

DivineMxPosted: 24 Apr 2006, 10:45pm

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Went for 20 years(yes that makes me old)to watch my dad march.

If you have never been it's the most emotional thing to go to as you can feel the spirits of the diggers that have passed there with the men that march,well that's what I always felt.

Most of the men that died over at war were about the same age as most of you guy's!
Just think that at the same age they were OS in a land they didn't know far away from the one's they loved & died in the most atrocious conditions but they thought that they were saving the one's they left behind & to give their kids, grandkids a hope for a bright free future!

We should never forget these young men & women no matter how many generations pass by as without the courage of such people we would not be the country & have as much heart as we do!

We are still sending our kids over to fight wars that make no sense to the one's they leave behind but it is part of the country we are,weather we think it's right or wrong these fine young men & women need our support & we as a nation MUST give it to them!

I grew up listening to horrific stories about what happened in the wars,to which the government would never have told the public,these men & women are my heroes & I have enormous respect for all who went to war.

Well done Pratty for doing what your grandpas would have wanted!
*tips my hat to you for that*

LEAST WE FORGET

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metal head!Posted: 24 Apr 2006, 10:50pm

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you can tell whos old on .r.a thats all i can say.....i shead tears every year at this day IT IS the MOST IMPORTANT DAY of the year for australia.and so it should be.

NTrancePosted: 25 Apr 2006, 12:16am

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I noticed that they have banned alcohol in Gallipoli this year ... I am sure most of the diggers would turn in their graves at that! How un Australian!

alexb618Posted: 25 Apr 2006, 12:30am

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i did not get my gramps medal in time for this year (has just been issued) so i will be attending the north tce service only

DeadpoolPosted: 25 Apr 2006, 12:32am

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QUOTE(NTrance @ Apr 25 2006, 01:16 AM)

I noticed that they have banned alcohol in Gallipoli this year ... I am sure most of the diggers would turn in their graves at that! How un Australian!

Good, the sheer amount of idiot Australians who trash that place after the service is pathetic. If they can't respect the place then it should be banned.

NTrancePosted: 25 Apr 2006, 12:45am

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All wars are just a senseless waste of life! I lost nearly all of my grandparents and great grandparents in wars from the Charge of the light brigade right up to WW2 and i used to work with this old boy that fought in WW2 ... he said they were treated like C*nts by the people that sent them to fight and when they came back after the war they were treated even worse! He said the worst thing they ever did was hand back their weapons!

Churchill was voted out at the very first election when the servicemen came home

DeadpoolPosted: 25 Apr 2006, 1:04am

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And both of my grandfathers served in both world wars. You think I don't know that wars are a senseless waste of life? But what the bastards who trash Galipoli are doing is the exact same thing that the diggers who came back were treated like - shitting on the memory of what they did for our country.

NTrancePosted: 25 Apr 2006, 1:20am

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QUOTE(Deadpool @ Apr 25 2006, 01:04 AM)

Maybe it was the rock concert they held there last year! :)

Fuckin bogans, can't take them anywhere!

PeteskiPosted: 25 Apr 2006, 1:45am

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QUOTE(NTrance @ Apr 25 2006, 01:20 AM)

Maybe it was the rock concert they held there last year! :)

Fuckin bogans, can't take them anywhere!

I heard somwhere this year its going to be a little more sobre, showing doco's and the like, the way we have treated the place of the last few years is disgusting, the turks would be within thier rights 2 fuck us off if we dont start treating the place properly
both sides fought and died there.

MaydayPosted: 25 Apr 2006, 9:41am

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Big ups to all that went you the city or respective dawn services this morning.

Well Done! :thumbsup:

trashy_chicaPosted: 25 Apr 2006, 9:48am

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teh dawn service was so good to attend, i am glad i did!

my nan and pop worked the factories in rural australia supplying stuff to the frontline, and i think i had some great uncle who won a purple heart in the first world war but noone can prove he is related to us. ahh yes, love those old fashioned family lines.

i attended out of respect for those who have died, suffered or survived the horrors of war, i do not believe in war and i am still appalled by how ex-servicemen and women have been treated by various governments AND countrymen over the years.

Lest We Forget.

MaydayPosted: 25 Apr 2006, 10:13am

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Purple Heart? He's American? Or did he serve in a US unit?

Aces HighPosted: 25 Apr 2006, 11:36am

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im glad i went as well we live in this great country because of those men and women

metal head!Posted: 25 Apr 2006, 12:10pm

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QUOTE(NTrance @ Apr 25 2006, 01:20 AM)

Maybe it was the rock concert they held there last year! :)

Fuckin bogans, can't take them anywhere!

what a fuckwit thing to say.......i,m not a bogan mate BUT I certainly dont remember seeing any bogans at gallipoli on t.v last year mate they all looked like young or old tourists/backpackers young clean cut faggy little boys and girls.

not drunk pot smoking v.b drinking people form elizebeth or the bronx.

THEY ACTUALLY LOOKED MORE LIKE YOU LOT!.

anyway i went this morning to mount barker was fuckin cold was surprised by the turn out well over a 1000 people.BUT i soon remembered what i hate the fuckin church using this event to bash my fuckin ears again.FUCK OFF! you bunch of child molesters.....god this god that!!! stick it.
it was a good event besides that i almost got through the last post but as usual shed a tear.

LEST WE FORGET :troop:

billy boyPosted: 25 Apr 2006, 2:54pm

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pretty good turn out at the march today. always love seeing the look in my grandfathers eyes when he is catching up with his war buddies and the proud that he has when his grandkids (and great grandkids this year too, with my nephews there today) come to watch

lest we forget...

NTrancePosted: 25 Apr 2006, 5:45pm

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QUOTE(D.J JIMBO DA METAL HEAD!! @ Apr 25 2006, 12:10 PM)

You did notice that is was said in jest Jimbo?

No matter what they looked like ... they still trashed the place and a rock concert is hardly relevant to the reason they were there!

BettermanPosted: 25 Apr 2006, 5:51pm

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sorry i didnt make it with the other RAers to the dawn service, i was still fairly bad under the influence so went home. big ups to all that went though

trashy_chicaPosted: 25 Apr 2006, 6:20pm

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QUOTE(Mayday @ Apr 25 2006, 11:13 AM)

Purple Heart? He's American? Or did he serve in a US unit?

erm, maybe some sorta aussie bravery award. like i said, he's not well known by anyone besides my dad and aunt and they wont say anything.

truckPosted: 25 Apr 2006, 6:24pm

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QUOTE(Betterman @ Apr 25 2006, 05:51 PM)

sorry i didnt make it with the other RAers to the dawn service, i was still fairly bad under the influence so went home. big ups to all that went though

same here didnt want to disrespect this great people that did a great service to the country by going to this in a bad state

TrasorPosted: 25 Apr 2006, 7:13pm

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big ups to AJ *tips hat*

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QUOTE(D.J JIMBO DA METAL HEAD!! @ Apr 24 2006, 10:50 PM)

you can tell whos old on .r.a thats all i can say.....i shead tears every year at this day IT IS the MOST IMPORTANT DAY of the year for australia.and so it should be.

QUOTE(NTrance @ Apr 25 2006, 12:16 AM)

I noticed that they have banned alcohol in Gallipoli this year ... I am sure most of the diggers would turn in their graves at that! How un Australian!

QUOTE(Deadpool @ Apr 25 2006, 12:32 AM)

Good, the sheer amount of idiot Australians who trash that place after the service is pathetic. If they can't respect the place then it should be banned.

QUOTE(Deadpool @ Apr 25 2006, 01:04 AM)

funchiPosted: 26 Apr 2006, 9:08am

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was an awesome day :)

dawn service in your poly's is always a nice extremly cold way to wake you up and start the day :)

for you who saw the apcs in the march, that is the unit, 3/9 LH, matty (tank) and I are from. We were both there marching :)

then after marching headed to the union and the street party, and had copious drinks :) but staying well behaved.