Every 25th of April in Australia is celebrated on the day of "ANZAC". This is the abbreviation of "armed forces Australia and New Zealand. "Commemorated on this day because it was also an April 25 in 1915 when Allied troops landed at Gallipoli to Istanbul and try to take to force the Ottoman Empire to stop the war as they were in it as allies Germany.
Australia had sent troops to the Arabian wars in which he was involved the UK in the ages 19 and 20, but had never done as an independent battalion and its own controls, had always been integrated into British battalions. The fact is that what they pretended to be a blow, ended up being a drain on 8 months, which almost could not leave the beach where they landed. On the other side of the line Fire Mustafa Kemal forged his legend thanks to the defense of Gallipoli and his leadership against the Greek invasion valuable the right to be the founder of modern Turkey. If you have ever been in Turkey is impossible not to see his picture ... we speak of Ataturk.
One thing that draws our attention is how seriously it takes here on Anzac Day. Australians feel indebted to those soldiers and those who have participated in subsequent actions, including the second world war. Contrasts sharply with the indifference in Spain to the Armed Forces Day. Perhaps because of the bitterness resulting from the civil war and years of dictatorship ... or maybe it's because Spain has so many deaths in so many wars is overwhelming try to remember them all, but the case is not celebrated in the same way.
One thing is clear, every city and every town in this country has a statue, plaque or his mausoleum because of the huge respect they have for their fallen. Here is the Hyde Park in Sydney.
Many of these photos are taken in a promenade in the "Sunshine Coast" in Queensland ... maritima you imagine a street in Spain with "thousands" of plaques embedded in the ground with the name of every dead soldier? for that is nothing more or less what we saw there.
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