Discussing if Anzac Day Should be Celebrated or Mourned...

We have no unknown soldier These are not forgotten men But cousins, uncles, neighbours Who will never laugh again. But theyll not be forgotten For the price they had to pay. For their childrens childrens children Will still march on Anzac Day No, theyll not be forgotten For the price they had to pay. For their childrens childrens children Will still march on Anzac Day. - Vic Macdonald 1988 Every year on the 25th of April Australia comes together to celebrate the bravery and extreme courage of those soldiers who risked and lost their lives while fighting for Australia in Gallipoli. But should it be celebrated? Should we cheer the men that returned when so many were killed and died of disease in the trenches at†¦show more content†¦Every year you still march down that street with that stupid proud expression on your face, you glorify the bloody wastefulness of that day? ? Act 2, Scene 3, The One Day of the Year. Hughie (the son of the war veteran with the controversial ideas about the meaning of Anzac day) mentions about the mistake that cost sixty thousand lives. The Anzacs were expecting to battle on large plains and were trained to do so. Instead of finding the flat beach they expected, they found they had been landed at an incorrect position and faced the steep cliffs of the Turkish Peninsula constantly under fire from above as they strived to entrench them selves at the base of the cliff. They faced a well organised, well armed, large Turkish force determined to defend their country. Every year on the 25th of April Australia commemorates this mistake. It is remembered like it was a victory but to many it is viewed as a waste of good men, young and old who died, sacrificing everything for there country. The Soldiers who fought for their countries should in some people?s opinion be viewed as heroes. They risked their life for the freedom of their country. Some believe that the battle at Gallipoli was not Australia?s war and that we were invading someone else?s countries for another countries cause. But what bravery the young soldiers showed to do so. To represent their country and fight in a battle against seemingly impossible odds, and die, and loseShow MoreRelatedOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagescentury, emerging contemporaneously with increased integration and mobility. Delimiting physical space, turning it into â€Å"territory,† and establishing institutions of population management have been constant objectives of these polities. The early days of this international system in the mid-nineteenth century, however, were a heyday of liberal and laissez-faire mobility marked by a decline of coerced labor and many mobility controls. By the 1860s, most European nations had dropped their exit, domestic