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Thinking about #AnzacDay2020 
& remembering my trip to Galipoli
If you haven't been, you should
To stand on the beaches in Anzac Cove & see for yourself the futility that lay ahead
The sheer cliffs rising up
The impossibility
However, there is a wonderful statue at Anzac
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& remembering my trip to GalipoliIf you haven't been, you should
To stand on the beaches in Anzac Cove & see for yourself the futility that lay ahead
The sheer cliffs rising up
The impossibility
However, there is a wonderful statue at Anzac
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Cove which moved me enormously.
A wounded Officer lay in no man's land while a ferocious battle raged around him
A white flag tied to the muzzle of a rifle appeared from a Turkish trench and the shooting suddenly stopped
A Turkish soldier climbed from the trench, picked up
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A wounded Officer lay in no man's land while a ferocious battle raged around him
A white flag tied to the muzzle of a rifle appeared from a Turkish trench and the shooting suddenly stopped
A Turkish soldier climbed from the trench, picked up
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the officer, delivered him to the Australian lines & returned to his own side
It's not a monument depicting the ferocity of battle, enemies locked in a fight to the death - rather the embodiment of compassion
They were all just men who had to do what they had to do
#ANZAC
It's not a monument depicting the ferocity of battle, enemies locked in a fight to the death - rather the embodiment of compassion
They were all just men who had to do what they had to do
#ANZAC
