And we have never forgotten the Aussies and their willingness to 'stay the course', even though our nations disagree from time to time, we are friends.
It was the Battles of WW1 that NZ soldiers were involved in which finally separated us from the UK. The leadership of the English generals was so bloody awful and their willingness for the colonials to die rather than British troops so obvious that we were forced to look after our own interests...
Couple of things:
Anzac Day - a guide for New Zealanders
and
In 1934 Atatürk wrote a tribute to the ANZACs killed at Gallipoli:
Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no...
k9,
Ain't flying into Wellington great!, :D If the plane overshoots you're stuffed at both ends of that runway if it undershoots, well.......
And then there's the up and down-draughts. I remember flying in on a civilian 737 (older, noisier than the new ones) the pilot was ex-RAF and...