"A bright room with Honour ': PM Diggers honors, the Turks and the officers who have gone
Here is the full text of Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s speech dawn service Anzac Cove today.
you were strangers in a strange land.
The men who came from the “ends of the earth” in a firm hope of a distant and terrible war to end. But to not be.Advertisement: Story continues below
morning had already dropped the shadow of this fate full day. Here on these beaches and hills, so strange and yet so familiar, a skilled enemy in ambush, led by a man destined to become a great leader. A World War II has been described in deadly battles of a million people on the narrow confines of the peninsula. For the Allies, this was a battle of the nations of the great powers and the power of their kingdom for a broader strategic objective of fighting. For the Turks, this was a defense of the soil and the inviolability of the home, for the Ataturk ordered his men to attack, not just to die. And the men who fought here by our nation, our allies and Turkey, is dead – dead awful that no age or rank or the display of courage spared
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over 130,000 men who gave their lives in this place, two thirds of them on the Turkish side and 8700 were from Australia.
So this is a place made holy through the sacrifice and loss. E ‘is a brighter place with honor -. and honor the kind of livingA place where enemies meet in equality and respect, and reached a certain nobility of their character and behavior.
ended eight months later, this campaign as they started -. At dawn3.57 20th December 1915, say goodbye to the last without dredging.
I the victory of their opponents, who was beaten grudge, and deserves. You did shares of regret is greater than any defeat – among their comrades behindFrom Australia and New Zealand commander, General Godley left, left a message. Request for “the Ottoman army in order to respect the Anzac graves.
But this call was requested. The Turkish honor our fallen and hugged her, as her children. And then she did something less frequently in the pages of history – they called this place in honor of the vanquished as Anzac CoveSo we owe a deep debt Republic of Turkey ..
No nation could best kept our sanctuaries or more generously welcomed our pilgrims . A worthy opponent is an even greater friend has to be by the hospitality of Turkey, who do today what those who are leaving these shores more expensive than we had hoped for.back
How do we keep coming back To the best gift one can and one that is most important to give -. remember our memorieswhat the Anzacs did in war And what she has to make for our country in peace.
In this place taught us to look to Australia and no other place like home. Here’s where to the form and want to smell of gum leaves and wattle, not the pink or the elm. Where is remembered places called Weipa and Woolloomooloo, Toowoomba and Swan Hill. or the sight of Mount Clarence, as their ships away from Albany, was for many the last part of the Australian soil never experience again. This is the legend of Anzac, and is part of every Australian. not just the ones that their origins to the early to pursue settlers, but those like me who have emigrated and have to embrace freely throughout Australia’s history as their own. For Aboriginal people, whose value in time of war was a profound expression of love that they for the old country felt. AndTurkish-Australians who have not one but two heroic stories to tell to their children.
We all remember, because we all live in the freedom won for us the Anzacs. This citizen-soldiers who came here untested and unknown, and that “he founded an immortal monument of value” by the immensity of their victims. sunrise glows in the dark at the end of today . But the sun never sets the story of their actions. Now and forever we will remember it. Lest We Forget.
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