Anzac Day
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It will be a chilly one tomorrow but at least I'll been wrapped up warmly and won't be being shot at.
Hopefully the skies are clear because at dawn in Queenstown the Southern Cross sits right over the spot on the lake where the ceremony takes place. Pretty spectacular sight. -
A question please team.
Have taken leave today and just setting my out of office message, and I wanted to add some sort of salutation to recognise ANZAC Day, like you'd add "Have a Merry Christmas" etc.
Wishing a "Happy ANZAC Day" just doesn't seem appropriate, and adding "Lest We Forget" seems a bit pretentious coming from a pleb like me.
Appreciate thoughts.
Lest We Forget is fine by me
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@Machpants said in Anzac Day:
A question please team.
Have taken leave today and just setting my out of office message, and I wanted to add some sort of salutation to recognise ANZAC Day, like you'd add "Have a Merry Christmas" etc.
Wishing a "Happy ANZAC Day" just doesn't seem appropriate, and adding "Lest We Forget" seems a bit pretentious coming from a pleb like me.
Appreciate thoughts.
Lest We Forget is fine by me
Fine by me as well.
I do find it a funny phrase though.
"Unless we forget"?
I would think that "Let us not Forget" is more appropriate
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A question please team.
Have taken leave today and just setting my out of office message, and I wanted to add some sort of salutation to recognise ANZAC Day, like you'd add "Have a Merry Christmas" etc.
Wishing a "Happy ANZAC Day" just doesn't seem appropriate, and adding "Lest We Forget" seems a bit pretentious coming from a pleb like me.
Appreciate thoughts.
Leave it blank. If they don’t recognise ANZAC day they don’t deserve your business.
( or you shouldn’t have theirs…..or whatever, I don’t know what you do for a living )
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A question please team.
Have taken leave today and just setting my out of office message, and I wanted to add some sort of salutation to recognise ANZAC Day, like you'd add "Have a Merry Christmas" etc.
Wishing a "Happy ANZAC Day" just doesn't seem appropriate, and adding "Lest We Forget" seems a bit pretentious coming from a pleb like me.
Appreciate thoughts.
Leave it blank. If they don’t recognise ANZAC day they don’t deserve your business.
( or you shouldn’t have theirs…..or whatever, I don’t know what you do for a living )
Yesterday, in Poland
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Maybe one for the well-being/ happiness thread but ANZAC day was a cracker. Dawn Service with the waves from the lake lapping was rather poignant. Back home for breakfast and a round of espressos.
Loaded up the trailer with some plants to take over to our new property and everyone decided to come over so the fire pit was lit, lamb chops, crayfish and whitebait devoured along with a nice Pinot from the winery behind us.
This is how I now aim for all ANZAC Days to go. -
Dawn service and then bacon and egg rolls in our neighbourhood. Held locally in a cul-de-sac. Followed by two up up the road in the local pub and 6 consecutive hours on the booze followed by a coupe of league games..
work tomorrow might hurt.. but great day. Lest we forget
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Manly Dam service for us with the family - pretty cool being right on the water, they had folk on paddle boards with lit up signs spelling ANZAC throughout, looked classier than it sounds. Always good for the kids to remember that their issues pale in significance to what kids back then went through. I was even taken aback when reminded that Australia's population was just 4m in 1915, meaning the 400k who served represented 10% of the entire population, and 38.7% of the total male population aged between 18-44. Of those who served, 15% never returned. Lest we forget.
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Manly Dam service for us with the family - pretty cool being right on the water, they had folk on paddle boards with lit up signs spelling ANZAC throughout, looked classier than it sounds. Always good for the kids to remember that their issues pale in significance to what kids back then went through. I was even taken aback when reminded that Australia's population was just 4m in 1915, meaning the 400k who served represented 10% of the entire population, and 38.7% of the total male population aged between 18-44. Of those who served, 15% never returned. Lest we forget.
Yeah they are amazing stats, that's percentage that served in uniform, I'm not sure of how many went on active service. But the same percentages, around ten, for both Australia and New Zealand ww1 and 2. Kiwis serving in ww1 had a 58% casualty rate.
Statistics around the world wars are mind blowing
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@Machpants said in Anzac Day:
Manly Dam service for us with the family - pretty cool being right on the water, they had folk on paddle boards with lit up signs spelling ANZAC throughout, looked classier than it sounds. Always good for the kids to remember that their issues pale in significance to what kids back then went through. I was even taken aback when reminded that Australia's population was just 4m in 1915, meaning the 400k who served represented 10% of the entire population, and 38.7% of the total male population aged between 18-44. Of those who served, 15% never returned. Lest we forget.
Yeah they are amazing stats, that's percentage that served in uniform, I'm not sure of how many went on active service. But the same percentages, around ten, for both Australia and New Zealand ww1 and 2. Kiwis serving in ww1 had a 58% casualty rate.
Statistics around the world wars are mind blowing
58%!!! That is horrific.
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See with ANZAC day, to me is the most important day for NZ and Australia, much more important than Xmas, easter etc.
And I also admit I don't like sports using the day to promote games, only my opinion, but leaves me cold that a day set aside to remember those who gave up so much , is then used as a reason to promote games. See I don't even like pubs/shops opening on the day.
Anyway my rant on ANZAC day!! -
In Cornwall, the local council placed a wreath on the small village war memorial which was a nice touch.
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See with ANZAC day, to me is the most important day for NZ and Australia, much more important than Xmas, easter etc.
And I also admit I don't like sports using the day to promote games, only my opinion, but leaves me cold that a day set aside to remember those who gave up so much , is then used as a reason to promote games. See I don't even like pubs/shops opening on the day.
Anyway my rant on ANZAC day!!That's the most sanctimonious BS post I've ever seen!
You'd deny the vets and their families the opportunity to toast their fallen relatives and friends with a schooner at the pub?
I reckon the test for all these things should be "what would the blokes who died have wanted?".
And I'd bet my last dollar that they didn't die fighting for our freedoms only for us to be denied the opportunity to watch a game of footy at the pub with a few beers with our mates on the day we commemorate their sacrifice.
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See with ANZAC day, to me is the most important day for NZ and Australia, much more important than Xmas, easter etc.
And I also admit I don't like sports using the day to promote games, only my opinion, but leaves me cold that a day set aside to remember those who gave up so much , is then used as a reason to promote games. See I don't even like pubs/shops opening on the day.
Anyway my rant on ANZAC day!!You’re entitled to your view of the day but one of the reasons I posted what I did was actually to show how the day has become a “holiday “ or marking of thankfulness.
I have attended many stuffy dawn services and will continue to do so but the real remembrance and thanks are shown by the freedom to have a day eating, drinking, yakking with mates about whatever you like whether that’s at the pub, the kitchen table or around a fire.
Sometimes that’s the bit we forget and doing it on a special day helps us remember that and the sacrifices made.
