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<blockquote data-quote="snooch" data-source="post: 197152"><p>So did the Canadians. </p><p></p><p>The point was that ANZAC and Canadian troop numbers in Boer Wars (actually between 1898 and 1902) were quite low. Thus, the Great War is always seen as the genesis of a distinct Canadian, Australian and New Zealand culture respectively as that was the first time that those three Dominions had sent their men in such large numbers overseas to fight in a distant and far away land.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: ANZAC day is like Rememberance Day for the UK & Canada and it should be for Ireland as well. It is treated as a day of reflection, politics of the past and the present are cast aside for a collective mourning of such a tragic period of history. Gradually, these events are being extended to cover many other (if not all) conflicts across the globe. For the ANZACs, Vietnam now features while Canada reflects on those who have died across the world serving under the blue flag. Britain remembers its fallen in Bosnia and other peacekeeping missions across the globe. </p><p></p><p>The red poppy today symbolises allot of positive things for a good many different reasons. It gives hope because, like the Poppy growing after the chaos on the Somme or on Vimy Ridge, life and humanity can and will always survive and grow back to its previous glory. What sacrifices our forebears may have made in the past we can justify by enjoying life to maximum, doing good deeds or simply by laughing and talking when passing through a Commonwealth War Cementary. They hear us and they smile, for they know that when they gave their today, they know that somehow, <em>somehow</em> it wasn't in vain. And for that they have earnt our everlasting gratitude.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>You're right on how ANZAC day now incorporates all of the different conflicts, but at all the services I've been to I've never really heard anything mentioned about the war on terror. Could be just because it's still going on, but I hope it doesn't turn into another Vietnam.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="snooch, post: 197152"] So did the Canadians. The point was that ANZAC and Canadian troop numbers in Boer Wars (actually between 1898 and 1902) were quite low. Thus, the Great War is always seen as the genesis of a distinct Canadian, Australian and New Zealand culture respectively as that was the first time that those three Dominions had sent their men in such large numbers overseas to fight in a distant and far away land. EDIT: ANZAC day is like Rememberance Day for the UK & Canada and it should be for Ireland as well. It is treated as a day of reflection, politics of the past and the present are cast aside for a collective mourning of such a tragic period of history. Gradually, these events are being extended to cover many other (if not all) conflicts across the globe. For the ANZACs, Vietnam now features while Canada reflects on those who have died across the world serving under the blue flag. Britain remembers its fallen in Bosnia and other peacekeeping missions across the globe. The red poppy today symbolises allot of positive things for a good many different reasons. It gives hope because, like the Poppy growing after the chaos on the Somme or on Vimy Ridge, life and humanity can and will always survive and grow back to its previous glory. What sacrifices our forebears may have made in the past we can justify by enjoying life to maximum, doing good deeds or simply by laughing and talking when passing through a Commonwealth War Cementary. They hear us and they smile, for they know that when they gave their today, they know that somehow, [i]somehow[/i] it wasn't in vain. And for that they have earnt our everlasting gratitude. [/b][/quote] You're right on how ANZAC day now incorporates all of the different conflicts, but at all the services I've been to I've never really heard anything mentioned about the war on terror. Could be just because it's still going on, but I hope it doesn't turn into another Vietnam. [/QUOTE]
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