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You're Top Poster: #3 | Lebanese Anzacs Lebanese ANZACs On Anzac Day we remember the one million or so Australians who served their country in time of war. Many Lebanese Australians have been on active service with Australian forces and helped defend Australia. This issue, which will be published near Anzac Day 2004, highlights the Lebanese Australians (including those born in Lebanon and those of Lebanese ancestry) who served their country, some paying the ultimate price. This is a small memorial to all those Australians, including those who identified as Lebanese Australians, who risked their lives for their country...................
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------------------------------------------------------- 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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