Lest We Forget – Anzac Day 2022
By Grant Dibden
You can learn a lot about a country from the people or events they celebrate in their monuments. In the USA there’s a great bronzed statue of Abraham Lincoln sitting in his mighty marble temple in Washington. Down the street is a thirty foot statue of Thomas Jefferson. In Paris, you see Napoleon. Throughout London and the rest of England are monuments of Wellington and Nelson. (more…)
Why Celebrate ANZAC Day?
By Grant Dibden
A little over 100,000 Australians have died in wars. Several hundred thousand more were wounded and countless others suffered psychological damage. Of these casualties the vast majority were between 18 and 25 years old. Just think that if you had been born 100 years earlier it could have been you or your brother or sister.
ANZAC Day commemorates a great defeat at Gallipoli where 8,700 soldiers were killed and the rest (more…)