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Post by Lux on Apr 24, 2008 7:32:16 GMT 12
On blood rock ground and desperate sill good Kiwi men and Turkish shell closed their ranks in the dawn-bright sun and turned the gullies and ridge-back spurs into killing grounds and halls of hell.
A relentless squandering of young life- three hundred gallant Kiwi boys, their soldier's blood runnelling in falling sheets to ravines below, their dreams sucked up in a bitter noise.
Dominions' sons erupting from the ground, blades thirsty for the tempering chest, charging bitter yards to enemy's trench, scythed down like the flowers of the field in tears on the broken earth's breast.
Their bodies slumping without grace and the agony dimming within their eyes falling at last loose-limbed down the cruel steep slopes of Chunuk Bair in a welter of steel and snuffed out lives.
Machine-guns stitching the already dead in corpse stench mounds and ravaged face, the horror of it all forever engraved upon the souls of the charging men who sweated fear and prayed for grace.
And out at sea in Gallipoli's lee sat the general and sipped his gin, waved his cane and committed the blokes to outrageous slaughter upon the hills where Anzac birthed in the dreadful din.
True men lie in gully shaded graves, the broken artifacts of man's war game, untimely wrapped in the torn land's breast now quiet and still in the winds of time and Chunuk Bair your Anzac fame.
Lt. John A. Moller ©
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Post by bottlecar on Apr 24, 2008 17:15:35 GMT 12
Thanks Lux.
The words on the Ataturk Memorial
Those heroes who 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 in this country of ours. You, the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears, your sons are now lying in our bosoms and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they become our sons as well.
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Post by askyouraunty on Apr 25, 2008 10:37:20 GMT 12
lovely bottlecar
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