Anzac Day

Anzac day is commemorated 25th April each year in Australia. Australian and New Zealand troops landed on Gallipoli in 1915 on that day and stayed there for seven odd months and lost nearly 9000 and wounded another 19000. Here's a primer on that disaster!

So for the week leading up to Anzac Day, we sell badges and the money goes to War Veteran Homes and similiar functions in support of all returned ex servicemen (and women).

Today two interesting people bought badges, one was an old Croat who bought his badge and then delivered a history lesson on the evils of Churchill and what he did. It's all true he says but there will be no proof till 2045 when the archives are released. I have often stood behind people in the post office. They buys a 50 cent stamp and then launch into a conversation that seems endless. People buying conversation time?

The next was a 10 year kid (I guess) whose Mum didn't have enough money. In fact she had $1.40, a one dollar coin and two 20c coins. "You can have a badge for that I say", so the kid takes the money, he drops the dollar coin into box and takes off like a rocket with the two 20c coins to the toy fire engine where he proceeds to feed the slot machine to get a ride in this thing. His mother went ape. Guess kids know at a pretty early age what they can do with coins, and this kid knew exactly where his priorities lay.