Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Anzac day marked in Belgium


As the sun was going down on Anzac commemorations in New Zealand yesterday it was rising on those in the fields of Flanders and surroundings towns, attended by several hundred Antipodeans. New Zealand's 29,967 World War I and II death toll was highest in France, with the second highest number of war dead buried in Belgium. Most of those are in the region immortalised by the 1915 John McCrae poem which begins "In Flanders fields the poppies blow, between the crosses, row on row, that mark our place..." READ ON

2 comments:

Anonymous said...
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
Anonymous said...

Advance America Cash Advance Reports Diluted Earnings per As of September 30. $1000 Cash Advance Loans in Less than 1 Hour Life is. Cash advance fees also rose to 5 in this year39s survey. Welcome to Guaranteed Mortgage Package Agreement Loans Cash Advance. [url=http://viiumft.rahuketu.net/map.html]payday cash advance idaho[/url] Faxless Cash Advance Faxless. Phoenix AZ payday loans and cash advance information including Phoenix AZ cash.