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Originally Posted by Ultimate Newbie
The Ode isnt used for remembering british casualties on ANZAC day, that would be rememberance day in November (techinically, all casualties from all wars).
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I don't see how you can appropriate part of a poem dedicated to the dead of another political entity and pretend it's about your country.
It seems to me like a pretty desperate attempt to prop up an illusiory concept of a nation - which is not inherently wrong, merely silly. But it crosses the boarder into offensive when you steal the patriotism of other nations and pass it off as your own - can't you just lie outright?
And by the way it's not an ode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode
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Originally Posted by Ultimate Newbie
That's fair; i was going to say something else but didnt. Good thing that GD has you as the grammar police! What would we do without yahwe? Useless for everything else, clearly!
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You're starting to make my eyes bleed - even a pretend nation ought to teach its citizens to punctuate.