A Look Back On Anzac day

April 28, 2015

The Weekend was full of Commemoration services across the country, marking the 100th year since the Gallipoli campaign. Tens and thousands of people attended Dawn services, parades and events held to remember those who fought for New Zealand and Australia millions of miles from home.

It was estimated by the Department of Culture and Heritage that around 40,000 people attended the early morning Dawn service at the newly-opened Pukeahu National War Memorialin Wellington. With many of those remembering being National Service Men and Woman from around the country.

unknown soldier letter

Greymouth

105 Sinnott Rd

21 April 2015

7805

To the unknown soldier

thank you for sacrificing your self to kill the germans and

defending us to not get killed and not being scared and to save allot of lifes.I wonder how old were you when you got shot? did you have a family? I wonder what is your name?  

Are you a boy or girl? I wonder if you have ever had a proper life? I had five people who fortin war and four got killed in war and one survived.

                         

GALLIPOLI

On 25 April 2015, we will commemorate the centenary of the ANZAC landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. What followed in 1915 was a bitter eight-month campaign that helped to forge our nation.

Australia and New Zealand conduct three commemorative services at Gallipoli on Anzac Day each year. The Dawn Service at the Anzac Commemorative Site is jointly conducted by both countries and is followed by an Australian Memorial Service at Lone Pine, and a New Zealand Memorial Service at Chunuk Bair.

As the Anzac Commemorative Site has a limited capacity, anticipated demand to attend represents a challenge to ensuring a secure, safe and comfortable visitor experience, while maintaining the dignity and solemnity of the centenary commemorations.

Attendance at the Anzac Day commemorations in Gallipoli in 2015 is being managed through a public ballot. Only those with attendance passes received through either the New Zealand or Australian government ballot will be able to attend.

The ballot and waitlist is now closed. The results of the New Zealand Gallipoli 2015 ballot were announced on Monday 31 March 2014.

Baking anzac bicits

today after lunch we went to the tech center and made anzac biscites and we put are feet through the hole in the center of the table while we were watting. :) yummy yummy

ANZAC

200 year old mummy still alive

Scientists in Mongolia are examining a 200 year old mummified monk who some Buddhists believe may still be alive!


Buddhists believe that the monk is in fact in a deep meditative trance, mummified sitting in a cross-legged lotus position and the preserved body has been sent to the National Centre of Forensic Expertise in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, for testing.


The founder of the Mongolian Institute of Buddhist Art says that the position in which the monk is preserved in is a sign that he is not dead but in a very deep state of meditation known as tukdam which crosses over between life and death. It is rare for anyone to be able to remain in this state for more than 3 weeks.


An examination is under way. What do you think?

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