How come Australians celebrate the landings at Gallipoli as a

It's one of the biggest engagements by ANZAC forces and it's less a celebration of the war and more of just a day for aussies to be allowed to be proud of being aussie. Most countries aren't like burger land where people fly the flag every day and clap for troops on civilian airplanes. ANZAC holidays are a sort of exception to that.

>>2711752

It's a commemoration not a celebration you tard.

>>2711752
Before Gallipoli, and to a larger extent WW1, we were essentially british people that spoke a bit differently. Gallipoli is significant because it marks the occasion when Australian was a national identity.

>>2711783
>swaths of bogans getting shitfaced and ripping skids
>not a celebration

This is b8

>>2712168

Go to an Irish funeral wake, you'd be amazed.

Who cares? im just pissed that the fucking loud fighter jets flew over my house, making me shit myself out of bed.

>>2712928
Aw bubs :'(

>>2711752
I'm not oceanic, but the way i see it ANZAC day was the point in which the kiwis and aussies both grew to be something other than "British on a different island"

>>2711752
It was a significant early deployment, and being a defeat it embodies the sacrifice and hardship of conflict; and also ingenuity, resolve and mateship.

>>2712978
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>>2711801
This is a meme, no one felt this way when it happened or after it happened. It was a disaster that was awful and everyone was angry at the government for.

The government shifted the blame and anger in to an almost necessary event to unite Australia.

>>2711752
They have no other history

>yfw Straya commemorates for all eternity the date it got cucked by a certain British lord of the admiralty into sending thousands of their own men to their deaths

>>2712988
I'm talking about why it is 'celebrated' today. The contempirary fetishisation of Gallipoli.

>>2711752
They also honor criminals as national heroes