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Thread #56795   Message #1076169
Posted By: GUEST
19-Dec-03 - 10:48 AM
Thread Name: Greatest Anti-War Song Ever?
Subject: RE: Greatest Anti-War Song Ever?
I'm afraid I cannot tolerate "The band played Waltzing Matilda".

Perhaps because it at least implies there was conscription in Australia in WWI. There wasn't.

Perhaps because it claims Suvla as an Australian landing. It wasn't.

Perhaps because it proclaims Suvla an opposed landing. It wasn't.

If he'd written something about Anzac cove, Y Beach etc. fine, but distorting the truth weakens the case against the Great Obscenity.