ttbn and JOM.

Not necessary to add to those comments! I subscribe to those theories.

Hey onthebeach,
I never said they weren't professional but calling them a 'Defense Force' might be a stretch, or maybe just a flat out lie.
They are an Offense (not Defense) force, when did foreign troops last invade our shores?
- An honest and reasonable question.

I watched some of the coverage yesterday and all I saw were paid mercenaries whining that they got no recognition for going to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Well you shouldn't have been a paid mercenary doing the dirty work of other nations - that's not 'Defense', we had no reason to be at war with these countries, and if they get themselves killed or PTSD then that's their stupid fault for signing up to stand in front of a bullet that another nation fires in defense of their own sovereignty.

Soldiers today only disgrace the ANZACS memory (by being paid mercenaries), but hey that's my opinion and my relatives fought and lead men into battle at Gallipoli so I'm entitled to my opinion, whether others agree or not.

I will show all the respect under the sun for what the ANZACS endured for us, but these modern mercenaries can expect little respect from me.
They aren't defending the nation, they are creating enemies and painting a target on this nation instead.

I agree with many people ANZAC Day has lost much of it's meaning to me and many of my close friends. In fact I never go to any march (no longer able to march anyway) or commemorative service now, and though I'll put my gongs up, for a short time while meeting quietly with a couple of mates with similar sentiments, the day's means nothing to any of us now.

We think the day's been hi-jacked, by politicians and others who never went abroad to a war zone, and to many of those who wish to 'celebrate' and 'enjoy' the day, when it's really a day of quiet reflection and somber moods. Still I've said all this previously and somebody or other will wish to strip apart much of that which I've opined before, and to be very candid I couldn't careless, to be perfectly honest with you.

Let the others, the younger folk have the day as theirs. As for me and my kind, we've all reached that age (our mid seventies)and it's now time where we're all slowly dying off, much to the delight of the governments of the day, so it really doesn't matter in the scheme of things, too much really!

Couple of points for young William Hill, History has never been your strong suit matey!

The Turks were the Ottoman Empire who had subjugated masses of other peoples and countries and initiated the Armenian Genocide. Just as bad as any other Colonial power but as Willy regards them as "Foreigners" so he cannot criticise them. In fact he has to adopt a craven, cringing lefty attitude to the Ottomans.
Secondly the Officers in Gallipolli were mostly Germans sent there to stiffen up the Turks.
Armchair Critic has a point about us being offensive but hardly fair to have a go at the ADF as they do and go where they are told. Mind you isn't the best form of defense attack?

Ohhh noooo!! I know that! :)

I find the comment on this site about the Japanese coming here to commemorate their military loss to be very interesting.

Perhaps we should invite them to come over.