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OFF TOPIC => WORLD NEWS => General => Topic started by: Lakes on April 24, 2014, 21:14:58

Title: Will you play two up?
Post by: Lakes on April 24, 2014, 21:14:58

hi all, ANZAC Day, who's playing two up?
cheers

Title: Re: Will you play two up?
Post by: FatBoy on April 24, 2014, 21:54:12

Just got back from the local Dawn Service.  I will go to the local march later this morning, but I probably won't play two-up.

Thanks to all current and former Defence Force personnel!!

FatBoy

Title: Re: Will you play two up?
Post by: Dazzler on April 24, 2014, 23:25:49

I'd play 2 up, but after a week in Melbourne and 3 days away here in Tassie, I've only got one coin left! :sad:

Title: Re: Will you play two up?
Post by: TheReaper on April 24, 2014, 23:55:29

Maybe.... the misses came down from Newcastle to the Nowra. Spending the weekend looking around the south coast.

Thanks to all past and present miltary person personnel and the ones who paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Lest We Forget.

Title: Re: Will you play two up?
Post by: Surferdude on April 25, 2014, 00:55:18

Quite a few years ago, before we left Sydney there was a moratorium on payment for the records of WW1 personnel and I downloaded my Grandfather's full service record. 30+ pages.
Recently I spent the required $27.50 and ordered my Dad's records from WW2. 16 pages.

Most of the records, which detail place of enlistment, training, embarkation, and any moves are handwritten but decipherable with a bit of time and effort. It's my intention to transcribe them in full to a typed record.

Dad was in PNG towards the end of the Kokoda campaign and Balikpapan (Borneo). Came away with malaria which plagued him on and off for the rest of his life - probably a pretty minor ailment compared to many others. He never talked about the war, but never missed an ANZAC Day march.

Pop was on the Western Front, suffered a gunshot wound and the initial mediacal assessment was, no chance of returning to combat and only a 25% chance of a normal life.
He was back on the front lines in a few months.

I think of them a lot on the 25th April each year.

Title: Re: Will you play two up?
Post by: neptune on April 25, 2014, 02:25:47

Since the early seventies, I march and play two up every year....

Lest We Forget

Title: Re: Will you play two up?
Post by: Just Rick on April 25, 2014, 02:47:10

I march in remembrance,for past service personal,also to honour the present service personal and the great job they do,but even though two up is a traditional game,I will not partake,for personal reasons,but will watch and participate in the cheerful banter.

Title: Re: Will you play two up?
Post by: The Gonz on April 25, 2014, 08:23:23

I'm with you, Rick. I don't even buy raffle tickets unless I consider them a donation to a good cause. The only gambling I do is to take out insurance. :victory:

Title: Re: Will you play two up?
Post by: Phil №❶ on April 25, 2014, 10:16:11

Doggie1's your man  :lol: