We will remember

7 Responses to We will remember

1. Ronbo says:

   April 25, 2016 at 04:00

   Taps for America’s most stalwart allies in many a hard fought battle for over 100 years – If the ANZAC troops have your right flank – no danger can come from that direction.
2. Darin says:

   April 25, 2016 at 06:50

   

   Found a good history series a few days ago that covers The Anzac’s

   https://youtu.be/rnKYVw5IM0g

   Gallipoli

   https://youtu.be/AuqJ7R62X-E
3. Jamie says:

   April 25, 2016 at 18:30

   And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E22gszljklc

   Now when I was a young man, I carried me pack, and I lived the free life of a rover
   From the Murray’s green basin to the dusty outback, well, I waltzed my Matilda all over.
   Then in 1915, my country said son, It’s time you stopped rambling, there’s work to be done.
   So they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun, and they marched me away to the war.

   And the band played Waltzing Matilda, as the ship pulled away from the quay
   And amidst all the cheers, the flag-waving and tears, we sailed off for Gallipoli
   And how well I remember that terrible day, how our blood stained the sand and the water
   And of how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay, we were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.
   Johnny Turk he was waiting, he’d primed himself well. He shower’d us with bullets,
   And he rained us with shell. And in five minutes flat, he’d blown us all to hell
   Nearly blew us right back to Australia.

   But the band played Waltzing Matilda, when we stopped to bury our slain.
   We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs, then we started all over again.
   And those that were left, well we tried to survive, in that mad world of blood, death and fire
   And for ten weary weeks, I kept myself alive, though around me the corpses piled higher
   Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head, and when I woke up in my hospital bed,
   And saw what it had done, well I wished I was dead. Never knew there was worse things than dyin’.

   For I’ll go no more waltzing Matilda, all around the green bush far and free
   To hump tent and pegs, a man needs both legs-no more waltzing Matilda for me.

   So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed, and they shipped us back home to Australia.
   The legless, the armless, the blind, the insane, those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
   And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay, I looked at the place where me legs used to be.
   And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me, to grieve, to mourn, and to pity.

   But the band played Waltzing Matilda, as they carried us down the gangway.
   But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared, then they turned all their faces away
   And so now every April, I sit on me porch, and I watch the parades pass before me.
   And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march, reviving old dreams of past glories
   And the old men march slowly, old bones stiff and sore. They’re tired old heroes from a forgotten war
   And the young people ask, what are they marching for? And I ask myself the same question.

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   What’s A Few Men?

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAJPFt88GYY

   60,0000 KIA/WIA/MIA in WW1 and for what???

   You Goddam right We Will Remember
   • Darin says:

     April 26, 2016 at 00:01

     
4. C-CS says:

   April 26, 2016 at 03:40

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3P15s4zWNQ
   thought you would enjoy this – it brought tears to my eyes-
   my Father – 4 years in the Pacific- my Uncle – p-38 pilot—
   C-CS
   • Darin says:

     April 26, 2016 at 05:37

     There are so few WWII vets left,I always will stop and listen no matter what I am doing when one of them tells of their experiences.First person history is a treasure.
5. KG says:

   April 26, 2016 at 08:00

   Thanks to you all, and bless you for those comments.