Gallipoli reveals ‘nation of character’

Gallipoli reveals ‘nation of character’

Sydney, 25 April 2015: Gallipoli revealed to the world that Australia and New Zealand were nations of values supported by men and women of the greatest character, Governor-General Peter Cosgrove has told the national Anzac centenary commemoration.Fresh off an aircraft from New Zealand where he attended a dawn service in Wellington, Sir Peter told the large crowd in front of the Australian War Memorial that those who went off to war had not a speck of knowledge of what lay ahead of them.
For all the genuine heroes, they had their share of miscreants, he said.Their nobility though was that they stayed together, clung to each other and to the memory of home.’The outcome was that they revealed to the world that Australia and New Zealand were nations of values supported by men and women of the greatest character,’ Sir Peter said.
The Anzacs and their deeds at Gallipoli and throughout World War I had, in the eyes of some, shaped our national character.Others disagreed, saying our two nations were already more developed, matured by different and wider experiences.hat the Anzacs did was to reveal such of our national characters as to place an eternal obligation to always look beyond our shores and place ourselves at the side of those in need whatever the cost, the governor-general said.Sir Peter said thousands of Australians and New Zealanders were gathering reverently in Turkey on what was once the land of our enemy to mourn and and wonder about the significance of Anzac Day.He said it should be a clear and simple answer.’The spirit of Anzac lies in us all. Those first Anzacs gave it to all of us for the rest of time,’ he said.

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