Discussing if Anzac Day Should be Celebrated or Mourned Essay -- essay

We have no unknown soldierThese are not forgotten menBut cousins, uncles, neighboursWho will never laugh again. But theyll not be forgottenFor the price they had to pay. For their childrens childrens childrenWill still march on Anzac twenty-four hour periodNo, theyll not be forgottenFor the price they had to pay. For their childrens childrens childrenWill still march on Anzac Day.- Vic Macdonald 1988Every year on the 25th of April Australia comes together to celebrate the intrepidity and extreme courage of those soldiers who risked and lost their lives while fighting for Australia in G exclusivelyipoli. But should it be noteworthy? Should we cheer the men that returned when so many were killed and died of disease in the trenches at Gallipoli? Should we celebrate their bravery? Does this glorify war? Or should we mourn the waste of over sixty thousand brave men? Why has a day that commemorates death and defeat come to symbolise a national identity to the people of Australia?The ?mo dern? Anzac day does not only celebrate the Anzac?s (Australia New Zealand Army Corps) but all the wars that Australia has participated in. But why is the focus of Anzac Day on Australia?s defeat at Gallipoli while fighting individual else?s war, and not perhaps the victory at Milne Bay against the Japanese. What is it about the battle at Gallipoli that brings Australia together to commemorate? Or do they celebrate? This report card will be focussing on the texts from the play ?The One Day of The Year? by Alan Seymour. Which explores a war veteran and his son?s overhear of the heart and soul and reason of Anzac Day.The play ?The One Day of the Year? gives a very strong message about two very different views of the meaning of Anzac Day. The reader of the play is ... ... and the right to voice their opinion. Australia is a lucky country to have freedom of speech. So should Anzac day be celebrated? Commemorated? Or Mourned? It is all about opinion, just like Alf and Hughie sett led there differences by agreeing to disagree. Australia should allow that freedom of opinion and speech. In summary if you personally believe that Anzac should be celebrated you should be free to do so. Likewise if you believe that the deaths and carnage that occurred at Gallipoli should be mourned and not celebrated. However whether you choose to celebrate or mourn, remember the gift of the brave soldiers who fought and died in the name of Australia.They shall grow not old....as we that are left grow oldAge shall not weary them, nor the years contemnAt the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them- Laurence Binyon