I had seen the movie Gallipoli, with Mel Gibson, when I was a teen.
I had forgotten what it was all about, though.
I went looking...history of
Gallipoli
Thanks, bundy.
I ran across this poem, as well.
Quote:
<center>For The Fallen
by Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncountered:
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contempt.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables at home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end they remain.
They shall grow not old....as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contempt
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
we will remember them
Lest we forget....
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