SPEECH FOR ANZAC DAY, THURSDAY 25 APRIL 2002 On this day 87 years ago, in the breaking morning twilight, a flare burst above a narrow beach on the Gallipoli Peninsula in the Dardanelle Straits signifying the commencement of an assault by forces of the British Empire and France against Turkey during WW1. ... The young men of the day had had drilled into them by history, legend, verse, story and song that real nationhood is forged in battle. ... Then in reflecting on history, Churchill said "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it!" For New Zealand and Australia, we may not have th...

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