ANZAC thread

[Damp Squarie]

An Anzac Hero

• Damp Squarie
• Aug 27, 2018
• anzac anzac day

Aussie humour from a digger.

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

So I don't want to put words in your mouth but if the events described in that were true, including the one below, in your words you think that's fantastic?

One of the most obscene acts occurred in October, 1945, at the end of the war, after Australian soldiers were released from Japanese prison camps. They were half dead, starving and desperate for home. But when the British aircraft-carrier HMS Speaker brought them into Sydney Harbour, the wharfies went on strike. For 36 hours, the soldiers were forced to remain on-board, tantalisingly close to home. This final act of cruelty from their countrymen was their thanks for all the sacrifice. Colebatch coolly recounts outrage after outrage.

The Australian economy boomed during the war. Allot of rich people and bankers made prison camps full of cash out if it while the working class took the brunt of the war effort.

Those who made all that money did nothing for the returning prisoners.

Context

 

[Damp Squarie]

Im giving a speech to High School students at assembly this afternoon as a prelude to Remembrance Day. [Centenary of Armistice]
This is one of the sobering facts I discovered when researching what to speak about.

"In the blood soaked quagmire of Passchendaele in October 1917, Australia had sustained 38,000 casualties in eight weeks. Thirty five Australians were killed for every metre of ground taken. In March 1918, the Germans took it all back in just three days."

Lest We Forget

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

Unfortunately bankers and generals who sat miles behind the front were involved in the treaty of Versailles.

The victims of the slaughter did not have a say. Generations wiped out for the control of oil

This the saddest and most arrogant thing about that war. A treaty that only gauranteed it would all happen again

Liberals in this country tried pushing conscription for the slaughter and the death penalty for those soldiers who decided to walk away. The British even executed those suffering shell shock.

My grandfathers were both wounded in France in the British army.

Today we still don't listen to the families of those who serve. The pain that vibrates through them and thier communities. We don't listen to the poor whose services are cut so we can fight wars that nobody can explain. Wars that just make money for the same people who drew up the treaty of Versailles