Nowadays Anzac Day has a multitude of perspectives:-memorial for...

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    Nowadays Anzac Day has a multitude of perspectives:
    -memorial for war dead and the mass processing of loss/ grief
    -a public recognition for those who have served Aus in wars past & recent
    -celebration of war generally
    -celebration of ancestry (we are real Aussies, not recent blow-ins)
    -Aussie nationalism
    -recognition of our British origin ( we fought in WW1 & 2 for the Brits)
    -recognition of our recent allegiance to the USA (we fought in Vietnam & M/E for the USA interests)

    and so on.

    So the big question is nowadays:
    Given that 50% of Australians have either been born overseas or who have had
    a parent born overseas, is the celebration of Anzac Day unifying or divisive (we/them)

    IMO, unlike the USA, we didn't have a war for independence nor did we have a Civil War,
    so we need a national day to celebrate our war achievements, good, bad or indifferent.
 
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