ANZAC day

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Because ANZAC day fell on a Saturday, it's been Mondayised, so we have a holiday on Monday as well! Hallelujah.

A time to enjoy with loved ones, cos you never really know how long you have them for.
 
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“Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.””
‭‭James‬ ‭4‬:‭13‬-‭15‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
 
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In New Zealand, we have dawn services and moments of silence to remember them. If any of us who has family who's served and died in the War (and it was atrocious, what happened in Gallipoli) the entire country was in mourning, because everyone in our nation (only 5 million people) or back then, in 1918 under 1 million knew someone who'd served and died in that war where they pretty much all got killed or died, or if they didn't came back traumatised.

I can't count all the casualties it's too sad. There are war memorials all over the country. I've worked in one actually a War Memorial library. It just breaks your heart, and these young men believed they were fighting for something good and protecting everyone else but they got massacred. At RSAs (returned services Association) anyone who's known a veteran can go an support them and they have these places they can gather and have a meal, and maybe a drink, and they have live music and gather to be comrades. We (or the wives, sisters, aunts) bake ANZAC biscuits so they could have at least had something to eat that reminds them of home when they were in the trenches fighting someone elses' senseless, stupid war.

Peace
 
If tomorrow is Judgement Day
And I'm standing on the front line
And the Lord asked me what I did with my life
I will say..I spent it with you

Not an ANZAC hymn, but the sentiment is the same