what does anzac day mean to you?

Every year I seem to be more "affected" than the year before.

Tonight I watched a doco on ABC about the Flanders/Ypres area in 1917. My Dad spent six weeks there and everything I see/hear about that terrible war fills me with horror. Think of "The Great War" and mud and this is where you arrive.... Flanders/Ypres.

How could there ever have been a WWII? Dad fought the "War to end all wars" but no one listened.

I am a pacifist (I, and most of my male family wore uniform) but was there an ulterior motive to Howard's disarming the people? How can we now tell the Gov that we no longer wish to spill our blood on foreign soil?

25,000 Australian dead in a day. How gross is that?

BTW There were two world wars. The Great War which, as I said was the War To End All Wars could not possibly have been WWI because a repeat was inconceivable. The term "WWII" was coined by Time Mag, I believe.

I do not use the term "WWI".