{"id":762,"date":"2005-04-24T22:37:53","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T03:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=762"},"modified":"2005-09-25T04:53:30","modified_gmt":"2005-09-25T09:53:30","slug":"gallipoli-dead-remembered-at-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"Gallipoli Dead Remembered at Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety years ago tomorrow, one of the bloodiest blunders in military history began.  At dawn, the World War I star-crossed campaign of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/4479843.stm\">Gallipoli will be honored<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The bloody World War I landing of Australian and New Zealand troops in Gallipoli will be remembered at a solemn dawn ceremony on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Prime Minister John Howard, his New Zealand counterpart Helen Clark and Britain&#8217;s Prince Charles will make the pilgrimage to the Turkish bay.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign was aimed at capturing Istanbul and providing a supply line to Russia 90 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But more than 100,000, including 20,000 Irish and British, never returned home.<\/p>\n<p>The site of the down service is named Anzac cove after the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who landed there on 25 April 1915.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of visitors from the two countries are expected to attend the largest gathering ever at the site.<\/p>\n<p> The campaign ended eight months later, when the Allied Forces abandoned the peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To walk on the battlefields of Gallipoli is to walk on ground where so much blood was shed it has become almost sacred soil,&#8221; Helen Clark said at a ceremony to honour Turkey&#8217;s fallen troops on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For New Zealand as for Australia it was at Gallipoli that our young nations came of age.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read for much more on the tragic campaign.  I would also recommend the <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0082432\/\">Mel Gibson flick<\/a> of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>I, for one, will mark the day with the haunting tune &#8220;The Band Played Waltzing Matilda&#8221; by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pogues.com\/\">Pogues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>But the band played Waltzing Matilda<br \/>\nAs we stopped to bury our slain<br \/>\nWe buried ours and the Turks buried theirs<br \/>\nThen we started all over again<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Full lyrics can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pogues.com\/Releases\/Lyrics\/LPs\/RumSodomy\/Waltzing.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety years ago tomorrow, one of the bloodiest blunders in military history began. At dawn, the World War I star-crossed campaign of Gallipoli will be honored. The bloody World War I landing of Australian and New Zealand troops in Gallipoli will be remembered at a solemn dawn ceremony on Monday. Australian Prime Minister John Howard, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-middle-east","category-military-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}