Surely the writer of “Anzac Day is divisive” isn’t serious? Our national day is January 26!
Anzac Day is our day to show gratitude to those who gave their lives so we can have and enjoy freedom. People come from other nations because of it, to enjoy that freedom.
I am Australian. I lived through WW2, I married one of the ‘newcomers’ who came to Australia seeking refuge from the tyranny of war. He had been a Russian soldier and was proud that he’d been on ‘our side’. He was happy to embrace ANZAC DAY (and understood what it meant) as a ‘new Australian’. Name withheld shouldn’t waste time trying to fix something that, as yet, hasn’t been broken.
I am one of the less educated Armidalians. I was a cleaner; I worked hard, as do all other workers. We aren’t less than you because we don’t have uni degrees, we are human and as the intellectuals and worldly ones are busy solving problems that sometimes don’t even exist, the garbos, cleaners and workers who keep our water and sewerage systems running, the mechanics and posties, cooks and waiters/waitresses, etc, etc, keep on serving happily.
Snobbery is not a desirable trait.
Barbara Rekunow,
Armidale
