> I was commenting on the religious content

Which I missed.

> However now I'm upset

!

> Just because it's respected in your country does that mean that no one
> else can object
> What if I were German, or any other nationality that suffered losses on
> the other side?
> What if I were Muslim?

Again, if you had read further than the briefest of scans into the material,
you'd have learned that the Turks who died fighting these men consider
them to be heroes as surely as though they were their own sons.  I find
that admirable and quite rare, and more worthy of comment than
perhaps any other aspect of this.

> ANZAC Day - April 25th
> DOES ANYONE THINK THE PICLIST IS THE PLACE FOR THIS?

Under [EE], [PIC], [BUY], [AD], [SX], [AVR], no.  Under [OT], quite.

The thing I appreciate more than anything else about the PICList is its
multinational nature.  I consider it my best link to the greater world
outside my "door", so to speak.

Consider this:  if at some point in the history of your nation, 10% of
its population was abroad, literally on the other side of globe, fighting
in a war which had NO direct involvement on your life (no one was
bombing your cities, torpedoing your cruise ships, etc.), and 10%
of those fighting (1% (!) of your nation) were killed in a single event,
would you want it forgotten a scant 90 years later?

For an American, consider it this way:  Imagine that one day, at
9 a.m., ever single WalMart in the nation simultaneously exploded,
killing all inside.  That's approximately the scale of percentile
population loss being discussed here.

That's where Russell is coming from.  I only wish my country had
that sense of history and gratitude.

Mike H.

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