Lest We Forget ... again

Today is ANZAC Day.

ANZAC Day, 25 April, is the day Australians (and New Zealanders) remember the original landing on Gallipoli in 1915.

• ANZAC Day at the Australian War Memorial
• The ANZAC Day tradition
• Dawn of the Legend
• Mapping Gallipoli
• Rare film: ANZAC troops at Gallipoli, 1915

It's weird thinking about a national holiday when you aren't in the nation to celebrate it with everyone else.

We decided to bake some ANZAC bikkies (or as they are called here - cookies) and the kids took them to school. They were going to tell the ANZAC story to their fellow classmates. The biscuits are made out of rolled oats, sugar, plain flour, coconut, butter, golden syrup , bi-carbonate of soda and boiling water.

We also found a really handy site that had lots of information

 

So, let's close this post with a minute's silent and the Ode

They shall grow not old,
As we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun,
And in the morning
We will remember them. Lest we Forget

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Comments

• Anonymous
  April 25, 2008
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• Anonymous
  April 25, 2008
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• Anonymous
  April 27, 2008
  This is werid but I can even find ANZAC biscuits in a local Fairprice supermarket. I'm refering to the same 'Unibic' (http://www.unibic.com/?p=151) brand that supports the RSL. This supermarket is not in even an expat part of Singapore.  

• Anonymous
  April 28, 2008
  berno - we found those unibic ones here too. but nothing beats home made ones