wendell said..
I don't know what those people were booing, and they likely shouldn't have been booing, but there's good reason to have highly mixed feelings about Anzac Day. We're conditioned to unquestioningly support the "sacred" Anzacs, but you're supporting those who blindly killed for whatever country they happened to live in, right or wrong, because the politicians told them to. That's why humans have wars.
It gets confusing (and the bad guys play on this) because decent people rightly think that yes we should feel for those who rationally believed they were on the right side and risked their lives for others, but what about the rest of the Anzacs: racists, rednecks, haters, dumb kids who thought no further than "It'd be fun to shoot a "turban head"" It's saying people should be praised for "Just following orders" which is what the average person does in a war, thinking their country is right purely because it's THEIR country. You can't have a war if both countries are in the right ...
My daughter is an officer in the Navy, she read the acknowledgment to country at the service yesterday. My son is in the infantry as well and I have a another joining the Navy. None of them want to shoot people but I am sure they would all follow orders and put themselves in harms way to do their duty.
You call serving members and veterans average people at best and haters at worst that blindly kill, maybe you should read John 15:13. Greater love than this has no one, that someone lay down their life for another.
We dont celebrate the killing at Anzac Day we honour the sacrifice.
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