my Battalion's casualties out of two and a half Companies, say 450 men, were about 45 killed and 150 wounded in about first hour of action --
William George Malone's diary from Sunday 25th April, 1915
Malone
Americans need to be united in defending our culture. After all, that is what the ACLU is trying to change with its continual stream of anti-Christian cases.
Here we have the religion of amnesia being imposed on us by someone whose true motivations escape me. Those who would desecrate the memory of our fallen -- before the court had even ruled -- before the appeals are even done with -- are beyond description.
Gallipoli Casualties
| Gallipoli casualties (compiled from various sources) |
| |
Died |
Wounded |
Total |
| Australia |
8,709 |
19,441 |
28,150 |
| New Zealand |
2,701 |
4,852 |
7,553 |
| Britain |
21,255 |
52,230 |
73,485 |
| France ( estimated ) |
10,000 |
17,000 |
27,000 |
| India |
1,358 |
3,421 |
4,779 |
| Newfoundland |
49 |
93 |
142 |
| Total Allies |
44,072 |
97,037 |
141,109 |
| Turkey |
86,692 |
164,617 |
251,309 |
We must not rest until this ruling has been taken all the way to the supreme court.
FYI, Gallipoli was an Australian film.
Why you pinged that to a Brit (whose countrymen, no offence Ivan, were largely responsible for that unneccessary massacre - I'm including WW2 "hero" Winston Churchill amongst those guilty) is beyond me. Australia and New Zealand lost far more men per head of population than any other allied country in that disastrous campaign.
Back on topic... this cross has me in tears for a number of reasons (and I'm not even a Christian, except perhaps nominally). I hiked across part of the Mojave with my late husband last year, I resent the "liberal left" trying to make things "fair" for everyone by offending the majority, and I weep for the soldiers memorialised by this "controversial" (if you believe the ACLU) cross.
I have an idea, let's tie a couple of the ACLU's most vocal supporters on this issue to the cross for a few days - hmm, right about now would be a perfect time, in the Mojave... (*evil, only half-kidding grin*)...