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Subject: ANZAC Celebrations
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 12:06:22 EDT

Jack your full of surprises and I for one look forward to your refreshing
comments, there is never a dull moment or a dusty corner left untouched!

Anzac happened well before my era but I have very early childhood memories
of services held in Devonport Auckland and very pretty commemerative poppies,
reminicent of Flanders Feilds not the sad replacements one sees today.
As I grew older I learnt through listening to my elders the real sacrifice
and tradgedies of the losses they endured through both WW1 & WW2. I have
always been grateful that so far I have been able to bypass that experience first
hand,and I feel indebted to those who have paid a price for the benefit of
both our land and people
Generally speaking I feel we Kiwis could learn alot from the way our
Austrailan cousins honor their ANZACS
Every day of the year not just ANZAC DAY they have memorials with fire
beacons and floral tributes. It is nice to see young people who leave
tributes.Australians are proud of the sacrifices their ANZACS made and they show it.

I live in Germany and can tell you that the other side of the story is also
worth listening to.
It has only just become an open topic so I feel privlidged to have had the
opportunity to hear these moments of oral history being revealed
There are no winners in war,
but through listening and remembering we can learn alot about sacrifices and
survival techniques endured by our forefathers in order for us to be here
today
In my opinion they were no less courageous than those early pioneers who set
out on long sea voyages to make a new life for themselves in the Colonies
If we want to pick on things not worthy of honor -Guy Fawkes comes to mind!

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