The FReeper Foxhole Remembers ANZAC Day - The Diggers' 4th of July - April 25th, 2004

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[snippy_about_it]

Thank you for this prayer, for the thread idea for the Foxhole and most importantly thank you for your current service in the Australian Defence Force.

[snippy_about_it]

That guy in the center looks like me, lol! Wonder what makes it so special?

Now we know. LOL.

[Professional Engineer]

Good miss Feather. Flag o'gram.

Flag flown on USS Corry June 6, 1944 -- D-Day
The flag was featured on the cover of National Geographic
magazine's June 2002 "Untold Stories of D-Day" issue.

[photo by Kevin McKernon]

USS CORRY (DD-463)

The Destroyer that
Led the Normandy Invasion

Sunk June 6, 1944 - D-Day
Utah Beach, Normandy

click me

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks Matt for the information. Wish we could get our tax system corrected. Sounds like the Germans want some of your money!

Any word with socialist in it is a bad word here!

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning PE, great link for the USS Corry. Thanks.

[colorado tanker]

Appalled at the horrific casualties and "ghastly inefficiency" of World War I combat, Monash, a 53-year-old former engineer from Melbourne, adopted the view that the infantry's role was "not to expend itself upon heroic physical effort," but "to advance under the maximum possible array of mechanical resources, in the form of guns, machine guns, tanks, mortars, and aeroplanes...to the appointed goal." Monash became an advocate of the use of combined arms operations, including those that employed tanks.

A man ahead of his time.

[Professional Engineer]

Howdy ma'am. I noticed that Australian PM Howard made a surprise visit to his troops in Iraq today. Good show mate.

[SAMWolf]

Morning PE.

Emily Giggard waves an Australian flag as she watches the annual Anzac Day parade through the streets of Sydney's central business district Sunday, April 25, 2004. Prime Minister John Howard paid tribute Sunday to Australian troops who fought and died in a pivotal World War I campaign and to those still serving in Iraq ,as record crowds massed at ceremonies to honor Australia's dead. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Daniel Roberts, center, shakes the hand of 105 -year-old World War I veteran Marcel Caux, left, as Pat Lee, right, looks on prior to the start of the annual Anzac Day parade through the streets of Sydney's central business district, Sunday, April 25, 2004. Prime Minister John Howard paid tribute Sunday to Australian troops who fought and died in a pivotal World War I campaign and to those still serving in Iraq, as record crowds massed at ceremonies to honor Australia's dead. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Australian Defence Minister Robert Hill (L) and Turkish Culture Minister Erkan Mumcu (R) watch Turkish soldiers lay a wreath during a service for the soldiers and sailors who died at Gallipoli in 1915 at the British memorial of Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula April 24, 2004. Visitors from Australia and New Zealand, mostly backpackers are expected to attend an Anzac Day dawn service early April 25 to remember the thousands of Australian and New Zealander volunteers under British command who died landing at Anzac Cove the site of a bloody World War I battle in 1915. REUTERS/str

Australian Prime Minister John Howard (C) attends the dawn service at Baghdad airport. Howard paid an unanounced morale-boosting visit to his country's forces stationed in Baghdad -- his first trip to Iraq since he committed Australian troops to the US-led invasion.(AFP/ADD/HO/Neil Ruskin)

Australian Prime Minister John Howard (C) wears a flack jacket onboard an RAAF Hercules C-130 transport plane en route to Baghdad airport to visit Australian troops stationed there during Anzac Day April 25, 2004. REUTERS/Ray Strange/Pool

An Australian solder, shot through night vision scope, observes silence during the ANZAC Day dawn ceremony attended by Prime Minister John Howard in Baghdad April 25, 2004. Howard flew into Baghdad on Sunday, just hours after suicide bombers took their war to the sea for the first time with an unsuccessful attack on Iraq's crucial offshore oil terminal

[SAMWolf]

He claims that our taxes are much too low for "European standards".

Typical Socialist, if we paid 100% of our income to the governemnet they'd say it wasn't enough.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the Flag-o-gram. Nice feature for the Foxhole.

[SAMWolf]

Morning CT. If there were more of them in WWI, maybe the losses woudn't have been so horrific.

[colorado tanker]

Afternoon, Sam. I'm bailing my foxhole out. It's been wet and sloppy here with rain and snow alternating since Thursday. Still, that's welcome for an area in drought. Sun's out now and we're getting ready to go play.

[SAMWolf]

That's the main drawback to the Kevlar helmet vs the old steel pot. Can't cook, shave or bail with it. :-)

[colorado tanker]

Oops. I just dated myself. :)

[Soaring Feather]

Lovely presentation on this homepage.

Old Glory

This Old Glory flew with forty-eight stars
the same that flew in my school
she grew
and Old Glory now sports fifty stars
on the blue
she grew

bentfeather

[Professional Engineer]

Hiya Sam

[snippy_about_it]

I saw that. Not only Howard but the Bulgarian leader showed up to surprise his troops, too.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks Sam for these pictures of ANZAC day!