What a load of religious babble that turned into.

Australian flags have always played a part of ANZAC Day wher people young and old would stand alongside the road holding small Australian flags. There is nothing wrong with this at all. All I saw here was a person's attempt to demonise the flag and any person who wishes to carry it.

Australian soldiers gave their lives for our protection whether the war was justified or not and this must be respected. Unfortunately, nations such Australia have more repressive laws than the Third Reich as airing views opposite the ruling social elite goes from being a civil crime to a criminal offence.

I bow my head for our forefathers. I turn my back on our despotic rulers of today be their politicians, propagandarists(journalists) and those cafe latte sipping dweebs who have never got dirt under the finger nails.

Lest We Forget.

Maybe Im cold hearted, and a very small minority, but I cant relate to anything whatsoever about Anzac Day.
I think it is all a complete load of nonsense---every last bit of it.
It was even a military failure.

There was a feature article in the Age on Sunday in which several young people gave comments about Anzac Day being the definitive part of the Aussie ethos. Bollocks I say.

Also this nonsense about being "blooded" as a rite of passage to individual and collective manhood/maturity. Bollocks again.

Humanity will truly come of age when it, as EVERYONE ALTOGETHER, asserts their collective moral authority and tells the manipulative powers that be, NO MORE WAR.

Such moral authority being based on the understanding that, despite the seeming superficial differences, we share and inhere in, a PRIOR UNITY at the heart level of our being, and that humanity is now one family (even genetically) and that we are all living together in a very small boat in which everything is interconnected.

This essay gives a very sobering assessment of the state of the world.
Cooperate or you WILL destroy yourselves.
1. www.dabase.org/openlett.htm

What an excellent article.

I'm not religious, but for the last few years ANZAC day has continually left me with a feeling of unease in the pit of my stomach. It seems to me that it is continually hijacked - unintentionally i have no doubt - as a vehicle for nationalism and religious sentimentality. In Victoria we have an AFL game played every ANZAC day in which the players are referred to as displaying the 'anzac spirit'. I think too often and too many get caught up in the rhetoric and let the real meaning - that is its lack of meaning - of the event pass them by. More dangerously, this kind of rhetoric only reinforces a sense of duty to ones' country and only encourages another generation of our young to take up arms and fight a war on the other side of the world at the behest of our benevolent leaders.

If the human race is going to put war behind us, we need to stop glorifying it and start focusing on the real issues surrounding it.

Stabinthedark.You and Hohum just haven't a clue.WW2 was a rightful and necessary fight for our freedoms.Some things are worth dying for, if they give future generations a better philosophy to live by.

The modern hedonistic culture of our time are losing the plot.You only appreciate the good times when the hard times have moulded your attitudes and character.Experience and resolve does not come from cyberspace or a book.Lest you forget.

err, not wanting to be a stickler Arjay, but the ANZACS in Gallipoli happened during WWI, not WWII...

I've noticed that this forum is being filled with the self loathing lefties as of late.

ANZAC Day is for all those who gave the greatest sacrafice possible, for all wars. Not just WWI.

Waving the flag is not glorifying nor is the rise in nationalism so get use to it and, if you don't like it, then move to Iran or such where you will probably prefer it. I shouldn't forget the dream model called, Cuba.