Re: Don\'t come home until u is sobern! (NC Thread)
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Aussies and New Zealanders also find significance in the day, no doubt, but they hold their most significant memorials on a different day - 25 April, known as ANZAC Day. That date memorializes the landings of ANZAC troops on the Gallipoli pensinsula in 1915 and the horrific losses they suffered in bitter, gallant, and ultimately fruitless fighting.
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The Aussies and Kiwis fighting in Gallipoli did indeed fight very galantly, at times against very bad odds. Unfortunately the British planning and leading the operation did such a bad job. If the leadership had been any better the ANZACs would have marched on Istanbul and would have taken Turkey out of the first world war. BBC has made a very good documentary on WWI called The Great War and is available on dvd, I highly recommend it.
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