Anzac Day
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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.
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. -
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.I haven’t been to a dawn service in years but I damn well take more than a few moments every ANZAC day to reflect on what it means.
……and the girl and I had a slightly frustrating drive around Welly after a delightful stroll round Ori Bay frustrated that loads of bars were either absolutely packed or completely shut. We did find one and she had a Pinot noir, I had a Panhead Vandal ( gosh darn what a beer that is, Panhead hit it out of the park again ), some chicken wings and cheese things. No surcharge either !
Our Grandparents got a lovely toast for the sacrifices they all made so we have the freedom to do things like this.
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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.
I don't have a problem with vets and families etc getting together, and I like how you twisting my post anyway. I don't have a problem with people getting together on ANZAC day and never said that, but the thing that gets me is noone can really get together on Good Friday etc, so it seems to make these bullshit days more inportant than ANZAC day to me. And I didn't say you couldn't play on ANZAC day, just the BS using the day to promote sports.. Nothing sanctimonious about it, just I believe ANZAC day is more important to NZ and Aus than all the BS religeous holidays that we can't do things on etc. Not asking you to give up a trip to the pub or anything, and that doesn't worry me too much really,just something that is personal feeling of mine. It's like some are pissed when shops open early on the day, and get pissed with that, I think they should be closed all day.
It's all about really as I said it should be the most important day to us. -
I think the balance is about right. The morning to reflect and the rest of the day to enjoy the privileges that our forebears sacrificed their lives to ensure we still enjoy today.
Conflating ANZAC day with the religious observances is a red herring.
My personal POV is Easter and Xmas should be like ANZAC. Morning closures so that those that want to can go off to church and then businesses that want to can open.
Without wishing to offend anyone the current situation does not reflect the multi-cultural, mainly secular society that we live in.
It is great that ANZAC Day is growing in strength despite real fears that its significance would die off with the old diggers. Services today are made up of a diverse range of ages and ethnicities. I think ANZAC is our national day in a way that Waitangi isn't (hopefully yet)
