Anzac Day.

A very Australian thing to celebrate. I've been to many dawn services over the years, starting when I was about 7 and a brownie I think. It always makes me a shiver to hear the Last Post and to recite the ode to the fallen.

Least we forget.

From the Australian Government's History of Anzac Day web page.

The Ode recited at ANZAC Day commemorations, is the fourth stanza of Laurence Binyon's "For the Fallen", first published in the London Times in 1914.

They shall not grow 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"

In 1934, Kemal Ataturk delivered the following words to the first Australians, New Zealanders and British to visit the Gallipoli battlefields, which was after inscribed on a monolith at Ari Burnu Cemetery ( ANZAC Beach ):

Those heroes that shed their blood
And lost their lives.
You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country.
Therefore rest in peace.
There is no difference between the Johnnies
And the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side
Here in this country of ours.
You, the mothers,
Who sent their sons from far away countries
Wipe away your tears,
Your sons are now lying in our bosom
And are in peace
After having lost their lives on this land they have
Become our sons as well.

The above monolith was unveiled in 1985 when the Turkish Government officially renamed the area "Anzac Koyu". Mehmetchik is a common term for a Turkish soldier similar to "Johnnies", "Tommy" or "Digger".

So and So.