So how many of you bothered to get up and honour the ANZACs this morning?

[Babelfish]

Gotta admit the parade isn't 'work'.
But the rest is.

But my post was in reponse to headlesschickens post.

Yeah, pieced it all together eventually, my bad (and the unfortunate plight of a fast typing smart arse).

This has been quite a good post and raised a lot of thought...which I feel is the point of Anzac day. If everyone thinks about it, and what it means, and who it contains, then that is all that can be asked.

[FJRider]

So your team lost??


Skyyrder

We support TWO teams down here... OTAGO and anyone playing AUCKLAND.
Being a holiday, did they both get time and a half, and a day in leiu ???

[Skyryder]

We support TWO teams down here... OTAGO and anyone playing AUCKLAND.
Being a holiday, did they both get time and a half, and a day in leiu ???

Well we got something common but a different team. Interesting point you raise. Still I thought the poppies on the field said something.


Skyryder

[Rogue]

Got up at 4:30am and went hunting

Great to be able to have the freedom of choice isn"t it

[FJRider]

Got up at 4:30am and went hunting

Great to be able to have the freedom of choice isn"t it

It is. Just remember how you come to have it.

[young1]

Friday morning found me with 5 other Kiwi's and 4 Aussies in Phukding (this is on the trail to Everest Base Camp in Nepal).

We all gathered together before we started the walk for the day and read out the "Lest we forget poem" that we had all brainstormed the night before over cards to try and get the words right.

We will remember them.

[Lissa]

I woke up at 5am. I usually go to the dawn service with my dad, but as he is unwell my mum took his place. Watched the old and young solders lined up, and the drum beating as they made there way to the war memorial in the park. As someone read out 'Flanders Field' and other poems (which I must get the name of) two old vintage airplanes made two flybys over the crowd.

As we pasted the cemetery there was a lingering mist surrounding the old gravestones of the departed solders... might sound over dramatic, but it is always that way each Anzac Day. I have relatives who lost limbs and their lives in the war, my grandad was in the army during WW1. Even more distant I had relatives who were in the battle of Trafalgar (Captain), another who died during the Indian mutiny of 1857 in which I have copies of his letters to home. It is a day of mourning, the least I could do is get up early.

[HenryDorsetCase]

my personal view is that you should not be eligible to vote unless you own land, AND have either served the country (in a meaningful way) or attend the ANZAC day dawn service. Yes, I was there. No its not commercial. It is the one day a year when we can forget what divides us as New Zealanders, and remember what unites us.

[Lias]

I went, and took my 3 young ones with me (voluntarily, I didnt drag them kicking and screaming)

Was very proud of my girls as they sat quietly and silently during the service whilst some other kids were in dire need of whats been outlawed recently.

[glice]

I was riding, but was thinking about the anzacs