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welcome back, bill.

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Roe was the best medic we ever had. He was born to be a medic. You could always depend on him. You hollered, ‘Medic!’ he was right there come hell or high water.

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MASTERS OF THE AIR (2024) part five, dir. Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck

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MASTERS OF THE AIR (2024) BAND OF BROTHERS (2001)

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NATE MANN as ROSIE ROSENTHAL in Masters of the Air.

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Today, in Australia and New Zealand, is ANZAC Day. It is on this day, the 25thof April,that we commemorate the brave young soldiers who risked their lives in World War One.

These soldiers, some only 16, had never fought under the name of their own country. Some had fought under the British, but this was the first time that Australia and New Zealand had fought internationally under their own names.

The ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) landed at Gallipoli on the Ottoman Empire over a hundred years ago today in a suicide attempt to take Gallipoli. The Gallipoli campaign was a fail; the British Generals made severe mistakes that cost our young men's lives. Yet they still fought with every bit of strength they had, fighting for their king and for their country.

Today we also commemorate all of the other brave men and women who have fought for our country since. We remember those who risked their lives in World War Two in the Kokoda Trail Campain, those who fought in Vietnam and those who are still out fighting today. Some of us remember ancestors who didn't fight with Australia, but fought for their own countries. My great-grandfather fought for Lithuania before it was invaded by the Nazis and then the Soviets.

(There is also a little Anzac service in one of the war memorials in Virginia I think for a Francis Debnham Milne, an Australian soldier who went down with US soldiers in a helicopter in WW2. He's my great-great-uncle.)

We remember and commemorate those today by wearing a sprig of rosemary and poppies. After the Great War of 1914-1918, all vegetation was utterly destroyed on the battlefields. The first thing to grow back were poppies. We also have many services throughout the day, a dawn service as well as a morning one with a march.

Today is ANZAC Day, a day to remember. A day that will continue on for generations as we remember the sacrifice those men, fathers and mothers made so that we could be on this soil today.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,

We will remember them.

Lest we forget.

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MASTERS OF THE AIR (2024) ↳ part two

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Jane Russell as plane art in WWII

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Actress Lena Horne posing with the Tuskegee airmen.

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P-47 crash, 1945

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A 9th Air Force B-24 in Libya, April 1943

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British troops cautiously make their way through an unknown ruined town - France, Aug 1918

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Officers of the 27th Division playing badminton in a village (possibly Stavros) in Salonika. 1916

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More diggings into my old external drive and dropping some BTS pictures for Michael Cudlitz's birthday.

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#nate contemplating humanity and experiencing the five stages of grief in five seconds part 461/793