What does ANZAC Day mean to you?

Question

I find the older I get, the more people I know seem to want to be a part of it. I've enjoyed a few Dawn services and foudn them very emotional. My great-grandfather died in WW1 and his son, my granddad, served in WW2, but luckily returned home. Now, my daughters are Girl Guides and are involved in Anzac Day marches with the war veterans. We are going to the Service, March and then having breakfast this year. What do you do on that day?

Answer 1

Australia New zealand army corp

Answer 2

the word ANZAC mean Australian New Zealand Army Core

Answer 3

It means a day to remember thos brave young people who died so we could be free.

I always remember my relative who did not come home from world war 1.

I am grateful to him and have his memorabilia to hand down to the next generation as it was handed down to me

LEST WE FORGET

for the servicepeople outthere, thankyou

Answer 4

Always a very special day, Husband is a Vietnam Veteran but can no longer march our grandson loves to be with him on that day this Year, this year his girlfreind will be joining him plus future son in law will also join in

Our daughter used to always share this day with him since I am now disabled and cant go,but alas she has to work this year

Answer 5

it means a lot to me not just for the family members my family has lost to war but also it was these young men and women that put us as Aussies on the map and help define our identities as a nation,they gave Australia part of its soul and i think that's why even as they get fewer every year the numbers that support them grow. LEST WE FORGET

Answer 6

It means freedom and the Australian spirit ,My great grandmother had 5 sons in WW1(only one at Gallipoli) and all came home she was incredibly lucky and I am sure very greatful ,they did it because they where real Australians and also larikans.

LEST WE FORGET

Answer 7

Respect for those fought and those who gave their lives for our country. No-one likes war, but those who fought, fought with courage. Lest we forget.

Answer 8

It's a fine example to see a nation honor it's soldiers. It shows the sacrifice they made to the hands of stupid Brits for our freedom and rights.

Answer 9

ANZAC Day is important to me personally because it is a time to remember all the men and women who lost their lives for us.

Answer 10

The futility and stupidity of war

think of all those

young guys

perhaps your potential

grand uncles

slaughtered

for no gain

in a far away land

for nothing

Answer 11

For me:

ANZAC day means to remember the sacrifices of those men and women who fought for our freedoms & especially those who did not return.  To pay tribute to their sacrifice and to ensure that not only are they remembered, but honoured.  For the thousands of Australians who are buried on foreign shores, for those honourable men and women who still serve their country, for those humble and simple souls who did not shirk their duty... LEST WE FORGET

Answer 12

it reminds me of the day the British killed a lot of innocent men through being so stupid.

Answer 13

to me it is about remembering those who died and those who bravely served.

will go to the dawn service, then the rsl after.

lest we forget

Answer 14

Like you I have 2 girls in Girl Guides. I am also a Leader so we attend the parade and march. For me it is a time to remember those who dies for our country and also celebrate those who returned.

Answer 15

Another public holiday, but I can never even start to comprehend the sacrifices those young men made, when they gave their young lives for us to live in freedom today..they gave away their lives so we can be here now, and they didn't even know us.

For each young soldier that died for me...thank you.

Answer 16

I call it aznac day (australian zealots needing a cause), I have had very close friends and a father who served in the ww2 thing and I grew up among the miners who returned from ww1, none of them spoke of glory, nor of bravery, they cried in front of me, a mere boy, and said dont ever fight for the government, one cried and said every time they sent us off to another war front they gave a speech and he said by the third time he knew it would open with I have never seen a finer body of men or words to that effect, you will have heard john the bootlicker, howard who managed to dodge any form of military service, use much the same words, best fighters in the world, they used the same words to send my generation off to vietnam, mates I used to drink with and went to school with couldnt talk to me any longer, they had changed. No these men were filled with bitterness for the mates they lost to a government war.

I WILL ATTEND MY FIRST DAWN SERVICE WHEN THEY PLAY THE JOHN WILLIAMS SONG , And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, BEFORE THE LAST POST, or Normy Rowe, listen when he says "god help us we were only nineteen". this is what war is about, not the ******** that is Anzac day

Answer 17

I had to do a letter from the war to home for my  school. ANZAC day means to me the freedom of Australia and the peace they tried to keep. Me and my friends done different things. Here is what they said on what anzac day meant for them. Ben: " I am proud that i didnt fight but im proud because they freed their country together. I have forgoten what the others said but they have great grandfathers that fought.

Answer 18

frankly not much...except perhaps the madness of the human race .....

Don't YOU think war is utter madness...?

The thing we should not forget is the insanity of it all

Answer 19

Apart from being perhaps the most important day in Australia's calendar ( far more important than Jan 26)

its also my Birthday!!!

This year I'm 35 (boo hoo)

My cousins daughter (what does that make her to me, second cousin? I'm not sure) is doing the reading at the dawn service, so I will try to get to it to support her as well.