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It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:05 am
by Reg
Well it's the 25th of April (ANZAC Day) again and none of my fellow Aussies have posted yet. I just hope they are down at their local RSL chatting with the ex-servicemen (always an excellent way of spending the morning).
I've come back from the Dawn service and the vets wearing the medal below are looking awfully frail. Spritely and unbowed but I just hope they will be with us for a few years yet.
Pacific Star
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:47 am
by OG_Gleep
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RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:01 am
by rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: OG_Gleep
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RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:26 am
by Big B
Dec 8th 1941? No - that's Dec 7th 1941, come on now I know you guys stand upside-down, but really!
Just joking[:)]
HAPPY ANZAC DAY!
Pacific Star
The Pacific Star was awarded for operational service in the Pacific theatre between 8 December 1941 and 2 September 1945.
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:35 am
by OG_Gleep
Originally posted that it was going to be a sad day when the "greatest generation" is no longer with us. And all that knowledge and wisdom of the vets will be lost forever.
I've always thought that the title was appropriate especially when compared to later generations.
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:57 am
by Reg
ORIGINAL: Big B
Dec 8th 1941? No - that's Dec 7th 1941, come on now I know you guys stand upside-down, but really!
Just joking[:)]
Errrr, we're on the other side of the international date line remember..... [:-]
(The defence department definitely would not get these things wrong - I'm sure you have dealt with your bureaucrats [;)])
ORIGINAL: OG_Gleep
Originally posted that it was going to be a sad day when the "greatest generation" is no longer with us. And all that knowledge and wisdom of the vets will be lost forever.
I have to agree with you there.
They kept trying to offer a chair to the elderly gentleman I was standing behind this morning but he was having nothing of it!! He was determined to stand as proud and and tall as ever.
May they carry on for many more years.
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:11 pm
by panda124c
Thanks to the Boys Down Under. Long may you stand proud.
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:37 pm
by AW1Steve
They have our best wishes and our thanks, from both hemispheres. [&o]
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:13 pm
by Mac67
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 6:16 am
by bradfordkay
Oh, man, does that pic bring back memories! I had armies of Airfix HO scale soldiers, and the (Bachmann's?) armour to go with them. They made for easy dioramas for school projects back then...
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:11 am
by Andrew Brown
ORIGINAL: bradfordkay
Oh, man, does that pic bring back memories! I had armies of Airfix HO scale soldiers, and the (Bachmann's?) armour to go with them. They made for easy dioramas for school projects back then...
Yes I used to have a bunch of those airfix plastic soldiers as well when I was a kid.
Those Aussie soldiers look like identical twins, or did they think all Aussies look like that? [:)]
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:47 am
by OG_Gleep
Those Aussie soldiers look like identical twins, or did they think all Aussies look like that?
As long as you don't mistake a NZ for an Aussie you'll be ok =)
<----Member of the Flight of the Conchords Fanbase [:D]
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:55 am
by decaro
ORIGINAL: OG_Gleep
Originally posted that it was going to be a sad day when the "greatest generation" is no longer with us. And all that knowledge and wisdom of the vets will be lost forever ...
Which is why the Library of Congress started the Veterans History Project, which collects war memorabilia and taped interviews of vets
before that happens.
Click this link:
http://www.loc.gov/vets/
Fortunately I videotaped my father -- Battle of the Bulge vet -- some years ago, and kept a copy of the interview for myself; he died this February.
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:43 pm
by Big B
ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown
...
Yes I used to have a bunch of those airfix plastic soldiers as well when I was a kid.
Those Aussie soldiers look like identical twins, or did they think all Aussies look like that? [:)]
Well - we were given to believe that Aussie's looked and sang alike [:)]
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Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya'
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away;
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:21 pm
by Apollo11
Hi all,
ORIGINAL: Mac67
Do you believe that I still have those in my storage... this is exactly the same box I have! [X(]
Leo "Apollo11"
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:52 pm
by Mac67
ORIGINAL: Apollo11
Do you believe that I still have those in my storage... this is exactly the same box I have! [X(]
Cool! I had shedloads of them back in the 70's. No idea what ever happened to them. I used to love the box art on the Airfix kits, still do actually. There is a nice site here where you can go and relive your childhood -
http://groups.msn.com/airfix/airfixhome.msnw
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:10 pm
by decaro
ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown
... Those Aussie soldiers look like identical twins, or did they think all Aussies look like that? [:)]
And they're all named Bruce.
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:17 pm
by Mac67
ORIGINAL: Joe D.
ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown
... Those Aussie soldiers look like identical twins, or did they think all Aussies look like that? [:)]
And they're all named Bruce.
[:D]
Well, they do kinda remind me of Mel Gibson......
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:28 pm
by decaro
ORIGINAL: Mac67
ORIGINAL: Joe D.
ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown
... Those Aussie soldiers look like identical twins, or did they think all Aussies look like that? [:)]
And they're all named Bruce.
Well, they do kinda remind me of Mel Gibson......
If memory still serves me, there was an old Monty Python skit re some Aussie outback society where all the members seated at the table were alll named Bruce; the Brit audience thought it was very funny, but I'm not sure I got it.
RE: It's ANZAC Day again
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:35 pm
by Mac67
If memory still serves me, there was an old Monty Python skit re some Aussie outback society where all the members seated at the table were alll named Bruce; the Brit audience thought it was very funny, but I'm not sure I got it.
I have vague memories of that sketch. I dunno where the idea that all Aussies are called Bruce comes from. Probably the same reason we think of all Germans as being Hans, Russians being Ivan or French being Pierre. Racial stereotypes are a Brit specialality [;)]