Anzac day

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Richard Coutts-Smith

They also noted that young Australians are treating this as a celebration,
Rich.

When the pilgrimage thing began to take off maybe 20 years ago , it was rather a nasty thing to see drunken Aust. youngsters running around Gallipoli behaving like louts and making a lot of noise . Thankfully, that sort of thing has been taken care of .

An observation by me. It's funny how the WW1 commemoration events have become more and more popular as we are getting further away from when it all happened . When many of the WW1 vets were still alive in the 1960's and 70's, nobody seemed to notice them, generally, they were ignored by society and given no special treatment .