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25-04-2008, 03:26 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Outer reaches, Melbourne, Victoria
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Just watched the Last Post and minute's silence at ANZAC Cove. Nothing but the sound of the wave's lapping on the stony shore.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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25-04-2008, 04:10 AM
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You're Top Poster: #32 | It's always a moving and poignant commemoration at ANZAC Cove. I am surprised how the Turks regarded the "Infidel Invaders". I like to post this somewhere every ANZAC Day... "Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side now here in this country of ours... you, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land. They have become our sons as well." Mustafa (Attaturk) Kemal, 1934. EDIT: This year, I have unfortunately not been able to attend any ANZAC Day commemorations as our vehicles are on their way to Canberra and we are busily packing and cleaning before our flight down tomorrow. I caught the ANZAC Cove commemoration and I'm watching the Villers Bret Dawn Service as I type this. My Great Grandfather was involved in that campaign. Last year I attended the Dawn Service at Iron Range - actually us three ABMM staff WERE the Dawn Service - as well as participated in a commemoration for RAAF PLT. OFF. Robinson who died there in a USAAF B26 crash in September 42. "Tire blew on landing at Iron Range, Australia, plane smashed into a truck, caught fire. RAAF co-pilot, Pilot Officer Robinson died. Lt. Walter Krell, pilot, got badly burned trying to save him. Several others were injured." Peter Dunn's website has a page on the Crash of PLT. OFF. Robinson's aircraft USAAF B26, "Kansas Comet": 13 September 1942 - Crash of a B-26 Marauder at Iron Range. Next year I intend to attend the Dawn Service at the AWM. Last edited by ABMM; 25-04-2008 at 04:33 AM. |
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25-04-2008, 04:25 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | An inspiring man.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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26-04-2008, 05:30 PM
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You're Top Poster: #19  | Members of No 5 Sqn RNZAF attended the ceremony at Dallachy yesterday. Members of the crew that had landed after flying all night were there on the ground whilst their comrades made a short detour en route to their Joint Warrior exercise area to fly their P3 maritime patrol aircraft past the War Memorial. Roxy
__________________ Remembering Flt Lt Al Squires and the crew of CXX/3 RAF, killed on duty in Afghanistan 2 Sep 06.  |
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27-04-2008, 02:34 PM
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You're Top Poster: #7 | I can relate to this and must admit it bought a tear to my eye. YouTube - Redgum - I Was Only 19 (1983) |
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27-04-2008, 03:01 PM
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It does bring a tear to the eye and I wasn't even there however I know many who were.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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29-04-2008, 12:19 PM
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You're Top Poster: #9 | Hi All, We had our services here in the Southern Highlands, though the weather turned rather wet and cold. My Mum ended up on the front of the local paper, though they got her name wrong  Anzac legacy lives - Local - General - Southern Highland News I marched with my daughter as she wore her late Grandad's medals. I'll endeavour to source an image of that proud moment. Cheers Owen |
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29-04-2008, 05:12 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Look forward to the photos. String up the journalist! A great turnout overall around Australia.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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29-04-2008, 11:13 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Owen Zube - airline pilot and author...:-P
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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