90th anniversary of the landing at gallipoli and im still feeling empty... does anyone else feel the dismal energy of this day?every anzac day i can remember i've felt this unexplainable absence of strong emotion. i feel no anger towards the people in the world who caused this devastating massacre. i feel no grief for the thousands who died. i feel no pride for the spirit of australia. i feel no sense of accomplishment for the liberty we achieved. i feel no dissapointment for the liberty we will never gain.without even contemplating on the meaning of this significant day in our calendar, i feel empty on the inside. waking up in the morning i feel a chill in the blazing sun that streams through my window, and remember that this is a day i know little to nothing about, and a day that has minimal significance in my life. Why therefore does this day haunt me and bleach my hope? Am i just crazy or does anzac day freak the shit out of other people too?
i have weird feeling towards it too - but they are a different kind of weird. I find that i'm torn - I hate war and the kind of glorification of war that anzac day brings. But, at the same time I feel that we should honour these men, who were so young, and who died so that other's could have a better future. mind you, some people like John Howard would rather barbeque than attend ANZAC celebrations. I mean, dude it's not AAC day...the NZ is part of it
yeah i think a lot of people see it more of a public holiday these days which is sad. the spirit of anzac day may not be as big as it used to be cause there are no longer any living anzacs this year either.
I'd didn't feel any dismal energy because it is my mothers birthday and mum is the best thing about Anzac day for me..
These days it's about both the public hol and rememberance. You don't have to go to a shrine, just acknowledge that they fought and died for our freedom, that it was a total mess and we shouldn't have been there. I don't owe anyone anything but i give those diggers my respect. It's a terrible thing to be a teenager and go off to fight other teenagers with guns, bayonettes. How can you be taught to shoot or knife someone for god's sake. Horrendous, what images those men carried their lives. Just a simple thought for them is enough. After that, spending the day doing whatever, usually watching the footy, is nice and relaxing. Maybe being so young for some, not caring or knowing how, comes down to what we are being taught in schools. Some aren't taught anything at all which is sad because it's our history. To keep the spirit alive, means we are the Anzacs future.
I think perhaps wer should not only onsider the old anzacs but also the efforts of our current and recent defence force, who have given their lives to what they percieved to be the right thing for our country
Completely agree. Our time in certain places is up and i believe our troops should come home. The war in Iraq apparentely "ended" ages ago. Tell that to the families of the soldiers over there. It's all bullshit that we are there because our government didn't have the guts to say no to Bush. We should've signed on for a period of time not indefinetely.
i get a similar feeling bernie. its a kind of emptyness that, I think, comes with knowing OF the significance of the day, but not fully realising it. How can we realise it? thankfully war remains at a distance to us, only evident in news broadcasts, we don't and hopefully never will know what it means for it to truly be us or them
If one day an attack happens on Aussie soil, i think most people would just about stop breathing. With every passing day that we endorse Bush and Blair with a vengence, we up our chances of being victims of this bullshit.
Well bernie you know how i feel about it. I think its pathetic... that is all... sure its sad and all but basically it makes me angry that there are people out there who only see ANZAC day as a public holiday to get drunk on.... pathetic..... and it wasnt even our war! there shouldnt have been a war! was shouldnt have supported the war! we were ( prob still are) weak prons following England, America and all the other powers of earth into globalisation....
