Salute! to Australia and New Zealand on ANZAC Day.

Sincere thanks from one Yank who has not forgotten their brave sacrifice.

Thank you for posting this.

To Alan E Brain: Lovely, moving tribute...and you should know there are many, many outside the lands of the ANZAC, even here in central Texas, who do know sweet Fanny Adams about Gallipoli, and what the meaning of it was and is. What I'd never heard, and thank you so much for, was the 1934 tribute paid by Attaturk to your Grandpa and his mates. How touching, and how perfect, as Attaturk became the man who bridged Asia Minor into the Western world. The ANZAC saga will live forever. The scene from the movie Gallipoli, where the ANZAC unit CO plays his beloved Italian opera record on his gramophone in the trench bunker the night before the morning that he must go over the top into almost certain death is one of moviedom's high marks, where an essence of truth was captured. Best Wishes to you all on ANZAC day.

My grandfather fought in the Pacific in WWII (Marines). He told me often, that the Aussies were the best soldiers he ever fought with.

This may sound like a nice compliment, but when you consider that my grandfather was a man who fought his way up the Solomon Islands and was on Iwo Jima when the flag was raised.

Generals and politicians can make nice speeches, but when a combat soldier tells you the Aussies were the best; I can't think of higher praise for the ANZAC troops than that.

Salute!

Thanks for educating me about ANZAC and Gallipoli. And thanks to every Australian soldier, sailor, and airman who fought alongside (and, in the case of the Aussies, often ahead of!) our troops to bring freedom to the people of Iraq. Together with the British and the Poles, you have written this generation's chapter in the record of freedom. You are worthy sons of brave and honorable fathers, and I'm grateful that Australia is truly an ally in every sense of the word.

Alan

As the son of an ANZAC private who fought at Gallipoli and then in France, I am pleased and proud that you have posted this simple account of the Dardanelles campaign. He seldom spoke of what he had endured, or of comrades he had lost.

There are three important points of "fairness" in the account :

1 It does not simplistically blame Churchill for the disaster - it blames the poor execution of what started out as a valid plan.
2 It records the sacrifices of Brit, French and other troops, as well as the ANZACs.
3 It records and explains the mutual respect between the Allied and Turkish survivors.

"The Pity of War"

Again - thank you for this post.

regards

check out mel gibson's first movie attack force Z..
great flick about the Z force

Thank you

COMMEMORATING THE MEMORY OF ANZAC DAY AND ALL THE BRAVE SOLDIERS , AUSTRALIANS , NEW ZEALANDERS , INDIAN, FRENCH ,AND ALL THE OTHER ALLIES AND TURKS WHO FOUGHT AT GALLIPOLLI.
HERE, IN INDIA, THERE ARE SOME WHO STILL REMEMBER THAT FORGOTTEN ARENA OF WAR AND OUR MEN FROM THE LARGEST VOLUNTEER ARMY IN WW1 (THERE WAS AND IS NO CONSCRIPTION IN THE INDIAN ARMY).................."IN YOUR HOMES TELL THEM OF US WHO WILL NEVER RETURN, AND SAY FOR YOUR TOMORROW WE GAVE OUR TODAY"
INSCRIPTION AT WAR MEMORIAL , IMPHAL ,(WHERE THE JAPANESE TIDE WAS TURNED BACK FROM INDIA IN WW11)

Yezdi : And we in Australia remember the gallant Indians who fought at Alamein alongside Australians, and the "Black Cats" who stood at Kohima-Imphal, and then drove the Japanese out of Rangoon...
Even those of the INA (Indian National Army) who fought on the other side, but who nonetheless fought in the name of Freedom. Any Americans reading this will identify with the awful conflicts of duty and loyalty they must have gone through. The American Civil War was much the same.
Compounding the tragedy is that regiments that we fought alongside in WW2 sometimes ended up fighting each other in the various India-Pakistan clashes. Let's hope that a Just (whatever that means) and Peaceful settlement is reached soon. Until then - well, at least we have not one, but two first-class cricket teams to battle against.
My very best wishes to you, Sir.

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