I've been to our ANZAC Day dawn services (the 4:15am service) since I was 12.
This is one of the most celebrated days in the Australian calander, the day our service men & women and their families wear their medals of honour, they parade through the streets and the public thank them for their sacrafice.
Australia has served in almost every major theatre of war: Boar War, Turkey WWI, europe/africa/pacific in WW2, Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, IRAQ 1 & 2 (and I'm sure I've missed a few), so we have a lot of ex-service men.
We also liberated East Timor from Indoesia and her 200 million manic population!
This year will be the biggest ANZAC day in history, I bet more people will turn out to ANZAC day celebrations then all the recent anti-war protests put together! So if you want to support our service men, get out to one of the parades!
And Serge as an Australian I'm damn proud of the United States, many people forget that in WW2 the Japanese bombed in or around Darwin, Carins, Marebba, Townsville, Brisbane & Sydney. If it wasn't for General McAuthur helping us we would be speaking Japanese.
Last edited by meatloaf at Mar 30 2003, 01:44 PM