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ANZAC Day

This is a quote from the April RACV mag by Mike Rosel in an article about people visiting Gallipoli. It struck me as I thought about this quote that we really do celebrate defiance and courage in the face of overwhelming odds as Aussies. Just think of our other popular hero Ned Kelly or even the Swagman in Waltzing Matilda. Also, I would place the persistence for land rights of Eddie Mabo and the Murray Islanders in this same resistance. The courage of 8709 ANZAC fighting and dying is remembered each ANZAC day but we don’t rejoice loudest with the one who killed the most enemies but the one who helped the wounded. Private John Simpson is famous for waking around with his donkey collecting wounded soldiers under heavy fire. It is likely that he saved the life of hundreds of men before being mortally wounded himself in Shrapnel Gully