American Reacts to "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" | Learning about the ANZACs

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39 thoughts on “American Reacts to "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" | Learning about the ANZACs”

  1. A moving tribute to the Anzacs killed at Gallipoli is often attributed to Atatürk in 1934:

    Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives … You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours … You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

    This inscription appears on the Kemal Atatürk Memorial, Anzac Parade, Canberra.

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  2. I’d like to remind viewers that the NZ in ANZAC refers to your Kiwi cousins in New Zealand who fought in that same action. And upon reflecting on the horrors of all wars, could we please get this translated into Russian and played to Mr Putin?

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  9. At this present time we wonder at the hubris of Vladimir Putin, sending his young men to die in a war of his own making. Vladimir is no worse than the British who chose to waste Commonwealth lives, with total disregard for those who were taken… simply because of gutless commanders who never, ever, put their bodies at the front. Churchill was one of those sending Anzac soldiers to their end. We learnt to stand up in to the British come World War 2… when it came time to protect our Nation from the Japanese, our politicians brought our best troops home.

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  11. I would be prouder of my Australia, of our government, if we stood up and sent our soldiers to assist the Ukraine, and publicly announced we were doing so. Putin and his friends are a canker on the arse of the world… one that needs be dealt with to finally ridding our world of such. Putin is but the start. Iran, Iraq (again), Pakistan, India and lastly China (a Nation that will simply implode under its own weight).

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  13. Hi Kaytlin,
    As an ex Aussie soldier this tune truly tugs at my heart strings.
    My personal preference is the Pouges version but to each their own.
    Thanks for the tune 🙂👍🍀🦘

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  17. The stubborn leadership and tactics of the time resulted in far more casualties on both sides in WW1 than there would have been if the troops were valued more by their commanders. My maternal grandfather was with the British Royal Engineers and was wounded twice at Gallipoli, disobeying orders after his first wound and returning to be more severely wounded the second time (part of his skull replaced with a metal plate). He received a gold bravery medal from the Serbians. Then after 18 months recovery, he talked his way back into his unit and served on the Western Front.

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  26. My Paternal Grandfather was at Gallipoli. Then sent to the Somme for the slaughter of 1916. Then Passchendaele in 1917. He finally had most of an afm blown off by a sniper bullet in April 1918, during the Kaiserschlacht, where they slowed and then stopped the German advance at the battle of the bridges.
    I remember as a 4 yr old being fascinated by his hand, only 2 fingers left, and almost no muscle below the elbow.
    He told me of his experiences, going out into no mans land on 3 day hunts as a sniper. One time when he got back he found most of his platoon had been killed by shells.
    That was just over 100 years ago. Similar to what is happening today in Ukraine.

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  28. That’s an amazing rendition of that song, the politicians who remade to stand up and fight instead play Johnny Johnny soon find reasons not to. I know exactly where you’re coming from Michael from England.

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  32. This song is also covered by the Irish folk band the Pouges.
    The Gallipoli campaign 1915 was designed to relive the pressure on the western front (trench warfare)started for the British,French, and the Russians in 1914.
    The Otterman Turks were allied to impreal Germany.
    A plan was devised to by the first Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill to knock the Turks of the conflict by invading turkey and capturing Constantinople modern-day Istanbul .
    To do this the Royal Navy and their French allies sailed warships into the Dardanelles Straits to soften up Turkish shore batteries before a major amphibious operation. The British and the French lost several ships damaged and sunk as the sea had been mined .
    This should have been a clear warning the mission would fail.
    However, the beach landings went ahead, and several beaches had been chosen thousands of British, Australian, New Zealand, French, and Indian troops went ashore.
    What they didn't know is that the Turks had prepared well .
    For instance, belts of barbed wire had been laid beneath the water line .Troops coming ashore were simply rowed in by the Royal Navy making them easy targets for the defenders.
    It was a slaughter house for both the British and Australian troops.
    Many officers were given maps that were outdated and some became lost.
    As the weeks dragged on a beachhead was established and the allies simply dug in and the casualties casualties started to mount at an alarming rate for no ground gained .
    The very situation the senior officers hoped to avoid trench warfare was happening at Gallipoli. Mass attacks and huge casualties .
    The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps A.N.Z.A.C did take huge losses that's because they were young countries with small populations .
    The British Army took the lions share of the casualties at Gallipoli.
    It was an 8 month campaign that failed all of its objectives costing hundreds of thousands of allied lives.
    The only positive was the evacuation .

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  33. The lives that were lost in wars in the twentieth century is obscene and what for in my opinion the only war Australia should have fought in was the Second World War hen we were threatened by invasion by the Japanese all the other wars were to satisfy imperialism by England and America , and the world now finds its self involved in wars and still for the same reasons only now it’s American imperialism or more to the point globalism ,countries have to regain their sovereignty and tell all those would be dictators to get lost

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  35. I always find this haunting, I'm a Kiwi, my Grandfather signed up in 1914 when he was only 16,he signed up with 3 older brothers and a cousin and Uncle, they were all sent to Gallipoli, where all but my Grandfather were killed. They have no known grave. My Grandfather would go on to fight the rest of the war on the Western Front, fighting in battles like the Somme, Messine, Passchendale, during the German Spring Offensive of 1918 he was with his last remaining brother when he was killed. Like a lot of Kiwis and Aussies I've made the pilgrimage to Gallipoli.

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  38. 74 of my family served , fought and sadly in some cases , gave there lives for our homeland , 18 in WW1 ( including Gallipoli ) , 54 in WW2 , 1 in Korea and 1 in Vietnam and I am so very proud of each and everyone of them and I would not hesitate to do the same in defence of Australia and my family , Lest We Forget , 🇦🇺 .

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  39. Kaitlyn, thank you for reacting. You're about dinkie di now but maybe you don't quite realize it yet. It is a haunting song and it honours the sacrifice of those who are combat veterans. I tear up driving through the avenue of honour going to Ballarat. Every tree a fallen soldier and now a 100 years on, many of the trees are likewise fallen. Something very poignant about that.

    I don't know if you have, but listen to "I was only 19'. It is even more so.

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