Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Stayin' Alive at Gallipoli

Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915: An estimated 131,000 Allied soldiers were killed and 262,000 wounded (sources vary widely); about 250,000 (some sources say 450,000) Turkish men were killed or wounded in an area measured in a handful of square kilometres.


The Australian, New Zealand and Turkish governments put on a big show (dawn service) at Anzac Cove on Anzac Day, 2005. The crowd was huge, as it is each April 25: this year there were 17,000 Aussies and an unknown number of others.

The solemnify the occasion, the organisers played music videos, including Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees.

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