Monday, April 25, 2016

ANZAC Day

It marks the landings at Gallipoli which, as I've blogged about before, were a disaster for the Allies.


They listened to Churchill then. Thank the Almighty that nobody listened to his "soft underbelly of Europe" strategic blathering in the next war.

3 comments:

  1. There's a stunning song on Gallipoli
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI
    one the greatest anti-war songs ever written....and written in the heat of Vietnam

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  2. I know, but you'd have had to follow the links back to these two pages to have found the song.

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  3. Relative to pussycats (moggies in the land of Oz), Eric Bogle also wrote this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcXzdq9kMw0&feature=youtu.be&t=77

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