A war memorial on Gallipoli. Read the words if you can. Over 100,000 dead and close to 200,000 wounded in an eight month siege in which Turkey (under Ataturk) repulsed a British attempt to reach the Black Sea. Most of the Allied dead were from New Zealand and Australia. ANZAC day is a memorial to the fallen in these countries.
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I had classes on the Battle of Gallipoli that taught that this invasion was exactly how NOT to fight or to win a war. All those dead for nothing. Everything was wrong - tactics, strategy, execution, communications. Ataturk was a dramatic speaker. I get teary reading these words. He wrote this to a group of parents in 1934 who came to visit their son's graves. The pic is blurry because it was raining and the lens got wet.
— Peter Hovell