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    Whats the go , Anzac day is on Sunday, public holiday Monday. R u working???
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    In a word..........................................NAH! !

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    i am planning on having the day off from paid work
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    This monday is a pretty big day mowing wise, so yeah i will be working.

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    Being self-employed now I have a different perspective on some (not all) public holidays. Being that Anzac Day is Sunday, I will be attending our local march/service, followed by social beers,2 up etc. Having Monday off seems some disrespectful to me, bit hard to explain




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    Hell no...after Anzac Day I won't be capable of working and neither will my offsider. About time we get the next day off. What makes me livid though is the fact that shops are forcing their employees to work on Anzac day.
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    Being ex army i wont be able to be woken monday

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    What is this thing called Public Holiday?

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    Booked a job in for Sunday, then my wife reminded me that's Anzac day. Rang the customer back quick smart and re booked. Told her its Anzac day and I will get lynched. Don't know if she understood what I meant but she will get over it.

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    Was she Japanese ????????????
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    Yes I have a full day booked on Monday, will be going to the dawn ceremony on Sunday then home for brekky and then fishing in the lake.

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    Lest we forget

    Today I took my first life
    I pray God understands
    this blood upon my hands.
    I know that it will haunt me
    long after it’s washed away
    for this death has scarred my soul
    and in my memory it will stay.
    I know I didn’t have a choice
    that killing is part of war
    and it’s something I will continue to do
    until I leave this shore.
    The old timers say, “Don’t sweat it
    a numbness will set in
    and in place of your emotions
    an emptiness will begin.
    “That emptiness will keep you alive
    and your sanity intact;
    it will kill any pangs of conscience
    so you instantly react.
    “You can’t let it get to you
    or it’ll be you instead of them
    and it will be your blood
    through which your buddies swim.”

    To live I must lose my humanity
    but without humanity how do I live
    and how do I face the ones I love
    if I have no love to give.
    I don’t want to feel that emptiness
    but in war there is no choice
    because it will bring death or insanity
    to give your heart a voice.
    Today I took my first life
    but killing’s the easy part
    the hardest will be when I go home
    and have to reopen my heart.

    ©Maria Sutherland

    WHICH HERO?
    He was special
    to his family,
    to his friends,
    to his comrades in arms.
    For little pay
    hazardous working conditions
    he gave without greed
    he gave from his heart.
    Today he died
    sacrificing his life for his country
    but no one knows except
    his family,
    his friends,
    his comrades in arms.
    They have lost someone special
    as has his country
    but his country does not know or care
    for today a celebrity died
    a person of wealth, fame, notoriety
    known by everyone for
    their commercials,
    their wealth,
    their product endorsements.
    Death has claimed two people today
    one a celebrity, a face known to all
    the other a soldier, known only to those close to him
    both are mourned
    for only one
    do strangers weep
    do they send cards, flowers
    is the announcement front page news
    is their name and picture on the news
    is the church filled to overflowing
    are the TV cameras taping the burial
    for the other
    only his family weeps
    only his family, friends and comrades send cards, flowers
    the only announcement is under Deaths in the local paper
    only his family, friends, comrades know his name
    only a few go to the church, many pews are empty
    there are no TV cameras taping the burial
    Two men died today
    one a celebrity
    the other a simple soldier
    both people are important
    both deaths will be felt
    but to the country one death is important
    a celebrity has died.
    What a sad world it is
    when a person’s value is measured
    by his bank account.


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    They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

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    (I JUST OPENED MY EMAIL AND TO MY SURPRISE
    A STORY OF AN ANZAC A TALE WITH NO LIES
    THOUGHT I WOULD UPLOAD IT SO YOU COULD HAVE A READ
    SO YOUR HEART JUST LIKE MINE COULD CHERISH THE LIFE THAT WE LEAD .)ADMIN

    Subject: The Anzac on the wall - ' ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT'

    A MUST READ FOR ALL ANZACS ( AUSTRALIANS & NEW ZEALANDERS )

    The Anzac on the Wall

    I wandered thru a country town 'cos I had time to spare,
    And went into an antique shop to see what was in there.
    Old Bikes and pumps and kero lamps, but hidden by it all,
    A photo of a soldier boy - an Anzac on the Wall.

    "The Anzac have a name?" I asked. The old man answered "No,.
    The ones who could have told me mate, have passed on long ago.
    The old man kept on talking and, according to his tale,
    The photo was unwanted junk bought from a clearance sale.

    "I asked around," the old man said, "but no one knows his face,
    He's been on that wall twenty years, deserves a better place.
    For some one must have loved him so, it seems a shame somehow."
    I nodded in agreement and then said, "I'll take him now."

    My nameless digger's photo, well it was a sorry sight
    A cracked glass pane and a broken frame - I had to make it right
    To prise the photo from its frame I took care just in case,
    "Cause only sticky paper held the cardboard back in place.

    I peeled away the faded screed and much to my surprise,
    Two letters and a telegram appeared before my eyes
    The first reveals my Anzac's name, and regiment of course
    John Mathew Francis Stuart - of Australia's own Light Horse.

    This letter written from the front, my interest now was keen
    This note was dated August seventh 1917
    "Dear Mum, I'm at Khalasa Springs not far from the Red Sea
    They say it's in the Bible - looks like Billabong to me.

    "My Kathy wrote I'm in her prayers she's still my bride to be
    I just cant wait to see you both you're all the world to me
    And Mum you'll soon meet Bluey, last month they shipped him out
    I told him to call on you when he's up and about."

    "That bluey is a larrikin, and we all thought it funny
    He lobbed a Turkish hand grenade into the CO's dunny.
    I told you how he dragged me wounded in from no man's land
    He stopped the bleeding closed the wound with only his bare hand."

    "Then he copped it at the front from some stray shrapnel blast
    It was my turn to drag him in and I thought he wouldn't last
    He woke up in hospital, and nearly lost his mind
    Cause out there on the battlefield he'd left one leg behind."

    "He's been in a bad way mum, he knows he'll ride no more
    Like me he loves a horse's back he was a champ before.
    So Please Mum can you take him in, he's been like my brother
    Raised in a Queensland orphanage he' s never known a mother."

    But Struth, I miss Australia mum, and in my mind each day
    I am a mountain cattleman on high plains far away
    I'm mustering white-faced cattle, with no camel's hump in sight
    And I waltz my Matilda by a campfire every night

    I wonder who rides Billy, I heard the pub burnt down
    I'll always love you and please say hooroo to all in town".
    The second letter I could see was in a lady's hand
    An answer to her soldier son there in a foreign land

    Her copperplate was perfect, the pages neat and clean
    It bore the date November 3rd 1917.
    "T'was hard enough to lose your Dad, without you at the war
    I'd hoped you would be home by now - each day I miss you more"

    "Your Kathy calls around a lot since you have been away
    To share with me her hopes and dreams about your wedding day
    And Bluey has arrived - and what a godsend he has been
    We talked and laughed for days about the things you've done and seen"

    "He really is a comfort, and works hard around the farm,
    I read the same hope in his eyes that you won't come to harm.
    Mc Connell's kids rode Billy, but suddenly that changed
    We had a violent lightning storm, and it was really strange."

    "Last Wednesday just on midnight, not a single cloud in sight
    It raged for several minutes, it gave us all a fright
    It really spooked your Billy - and he screamed and bucked and reared
    And then he rushed the sliprail fence, which by a foot he cleared"
    "They brought him back next afternoon, but something's changed I fear
    It's like the day you brought him home, for no one can get near
    Remember when you caught him with his black and flowing mane?
    Now Horse breakers fear the beast that only you can tame,"
    "That's why we need you home son" - then the flow of ink went dry-
    This letter was unfinished, and I couldn't work out why.
    Until I started reading the letter number three
    A yellow telegram delivered news of tragedy
    Her son killed in action - oh - what pain that must have been
    The Same date as her letter - 3rd November 17
    This letter which was never sent, became then one of three
    She sealed behind the photo's face - the face she longed to see.

    And John's home town's old timers -children when he went to war
    Would say no greater cattleman had left the town before.
    They knew his widowed mother well - and with respect did tell
    How when she lost her only boy she lost her mind as well.
    She could not face the awful truth, to strangers she would speak
    "My Johnny's at the war you know , he's coming home next week."
    They all remembered Bluey he stayed on to the end
    A younger man with wooden leg became her closest friend

    And he would go and find her when she wandered old and weak
    And always softly say "yes dear - John will be home next week."
    Then when she died Bluey moved on, to Queensland some did say
    I tried to find out where he went, but dont know to this day
    And Kathy never wed - a lonely spinster some found odd
    She wouldn't set foot in a church - she'd turned her back on God
    John's mother left no will I learned on my detective trail
    This explains my photo's journey, that clearance sale
    So I continued digging cause I wanted to know more
    I found John's name with thousands in the records of the war
    His last ride proved his courage - a ride you will acclaim
    The Light Horse Charge at Beersheba of everlasting fame

    That last day in October back in 1917
    At 4pm our brave boys fell - that sad fact I did glean
    That's when John's life was sacrificed, the record's crystal clear
    But 4pm in Beersheba is midnight over here.......
    So as John's gallant sprit rose to cross the great divide
    Were lightning bolts back home a signal from the other side?
    Is that why Billy bolted and went racing as in pain?
    Because he'd never feel his master on his back again?
    Was it coincidental? same time - same day - same date?

    Some proof of numerology, or just a quirk of fate?
    I think it's more than that, you know, as I've heard wiser men,
    Acknowledge there are many things that go beyond our ken

    Where craggy peaks guard secrets neath dark skies torn asunder
    Where hoofbeats are companions to the rolling waves of thunder
    Where lightning cracks like 303's and ricochets again
    Where howling moaning gusts of wind sound just like dying men
    Some Mountain cattlemen have sworn on lonely alpine track
    They've glimpsed a huge black stallion - Light Horseman on his back.

    Yes Sceptics say, it's swirling clouds just forming apparitions
    Oh no, my friend you cant dismiss all this as superstition
    The desert of Beersheba - or windswept Aussie range
    John Stuart rides forever there - Now I dont find that strange.
    Now some gaze at this photo, and they often question me
    And I tell them a small white lie, and say he's family.
    "You must be proud of him." they say - I tell them, one and all,
    That's why he takes the pride of place - my Anzac on the Wall.

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    How many different emotions do you go through reading that.


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