Getting up before the birds...the overwhelming silence...the bugle...the honoring of so many who sacrificed. Anzac day is special.
But while dawn services around the country paid solemn tribute to those who fought and died, some individuals decided to abuse that hard won liberty to smash down crosses arranged around a town's cenotaph. That happened in South Taranaki.
Meanwhile demonstrators in Wellington took the opportunity to burn the New Zealand flag interrupting the service. They called themselves anti-war protestors. I suppose they didn't see irony in that fact that the only reason they had the freedom to burn the flag was precisely because of the sacrifice of those they now protest against. Bloody idiots the lot of them.
You see...unlike all the other days we have off work, Anzac goes to the core of our nationhood. Whether you are for or against any war is actually beside the point. Unlike strap-on accessories like religious tradition, or even ethnic bickering, Anzac embodies the spirit of willingness from our forefathers to go fight, defend, and die for their country's future generations. Like many who observed the day I'm grateful. The vandals from Taranaki and the idiot peaceniks from Wellington deserve to have their citizenship stripped from them.
It may be their right to freedom of expression... but it's also our right to commemorate uninterrupted by their rude, disrespectful and boorish behavior. That the haunting beauty of the 'last post' could not move them as it moved thousands around the county is terribly sad. They should be ashamed.
But while dawn services around the country paid solemn tribute to those who fought and died, some individuals decided to abuse that hard won liberty to smash down crosses arranged around a town's cenotaph. That happened in South Taranaki.
Meanwhile demonstrators in Wellington took the opportunity to burn the New Zealand flag interrupting the service. They called themselves anti-war protestors. I suppose they didn't see irony in that fact that the only reason they had the freedom to burn the flag was precisely because of the sacrifice of those they now protest against. Bloody idiots the lot of them.
You see...unlike all the other days we have off work, Anzac goes to the core of our nationhood. Whether you are for or against any war is actually beside the point. Unlike strap-on accessories like religious tradition, or even ethnic bickering, Anzac embodies the spirit of willingness from our forefathers to go fight, defend, and die for their country's future generations. Like many who observed the day I'm grateful. The vandals from Taranaki and the idiot peaceniks from Wellington deserve to have their citizenship stripped from them.
It may be their right to freedom of expression... but it's also our right to commemorate uninterrupted by their rude, disrespectful and boorish behavior. That the haunting beauty of the 'last post' could not move them as it moved thousands around the county is terribly sad. They should be ashamed.
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