Anzac Day - April 25

[lab_jazz]

Australia’s holiest of days. The day that we gather to honour and remember our brave men who died on the shores of Gallipoli 95 years ago today.

“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them

Lest we forget”

Recipe and

Comments

[albertesmor]

It has always seemed so crazy to me, to send young men to the other side of the world to get killed, in a war that wasn't theirs.

I visited Gallipoli in the summer 2000. It was quite fantastic if you can say that. It was a quiet summer evening, the nature, the graves; like you could feel history.
I knew about it from the Peter Weir movie, and we later learned that my then boyfriend's grandfather fell at Gallipoli.
You brought up some good memories from a great trip. :)

The biscuits sounds good.

~hugs~

[lab_jazz]

I visited Gallipoli in the summer 2000

I've never been :( I think that it should be a rite of passage for all young Australians to make a pilgrimage to Anzac Cove in Gallipoli. Thousands of them do so.

It has always seemed so crazy to me, to send young men to the other side of the world to get killed, in a war that wasn't theirs.

Australia always seems to be getting dragged into someone elses war :(
Though in WW2 the Japanese bombed the top end of Australia, so we were fighting for our own skins there for a while.

*hugs you back*

[twicet]

Just watched a news item about this. The year my son was eighteen, I thought of all the young boys who lost their lives in wars, and then of their mothers!!

Eric Bogle is a favourite with us, the other song is new to me but oh! so very sad.

The recipe looks good, on my "to try" list:))

*hugs*

[lab_jazz]

I thought of all the young boys who lost their lives in wars,
You see the old archive news footage of them boarding the troop ships and they all look so gleeful, as if they were leaving on some grand adventure :( I don't know how their mothers could have bear to let them go...but somehow they seemed to have a different attitude about it all back then. Mothers seemed proud and glad that their sons had answered the calling. Maybe they thought that it would be all over in a matter of weeks.

Here is what the biscuits look like when made

[twicet]

Oh! these look great...have changed to the "must try soon" list:))

Thank you for the pic.

[liars_dance]

thanks for sharing this about this special day - and for the recipe too :)

[lab_jazz]

thanks for sharing this about this special day

Thanks for reading and commenting :)

[lab_jazz]

Thank you for making this post :)

and thank you Christian for commenting :)

[spike7451]

I love Anzacs and make them often, I actually made some yesterday. :)

While I certainly honour what happened at Gallipoli, I am also glad that people are starting to honour , and learn about, the battle of Villers-Bretonneux that happened on the same day, not just Gallipoli, and those in some of the other battlefields of Europe such as the Somme, Pozieres and Paschendale for example. Those three battles alone accounted for 53,000 Australian casualties.

'And the Band' makes me cry every time I hear it, and I still get shivers listening to "Nineteen", at the time I had four friends fighting there and two of my brother's were in the conscription 'luck of the draw' thing. It may be selfish, but I thank god there birthday's didn't come out of that barrel.

[lab_jazz]

two of my brother's were in the conscription 'luck of the draw' thing. It may be selfish, but I thank god there birthday's didn't come out of that barrel.

My brother was in the draw as well, and his birthday didn't come out either. My brother said that if he got called up he'd refuse to go even if it meant ending up in jail. My arse hole of a father chucked a fit at having a coward for a son. Man they were the good old days...NOT!

I knew a few guys that came back to Norseman after fighting in Vietnam...the experience changed them forever, and not in a good way :(

[spike7451]

I think my Mum would have hidden my brothers away if their number had come out, and my Dad would have helped her, he was very anti-war.

...the experience changed them forever, and not in a good way :(

...it changed so very many sadly.

[lab_jazz]

he was very anti-war.

My father actually lost one of his eyes in WW2, you'd think that would have made him anti-war, but no way, he was very gung ho about the Vietnam War...he thought that my brother should have been over there fighting to save us from the yellow peril. WTF!!