Some pics of inspiration - Page 9 - Aircraft of World War II

RabidAlien · 07-13-2008, 07:39 PM

Hey, NJ, hope you don't mind me posting a Youtube vid here. I'll blame it on chlorine, but my eyes are kinda misty after hearing this....

YouTube - Liam Clancy - Band Played Waltzing Matilda

Emac44 · 07-21-2008, 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RabidAlien

Hey, NJ, hope you don't mind me posting a Youtube vid here. I'll blame it on chlorine, but my eyes are kinda misty after hearing this....

YouTube - Liam Clancy - Band Played Waltzing Matilda

That is fine but this is better. And please look through some of the other attached videos with the one below

YouTube - AUSSIES IN IRAQ ~ WALTZING MATILDA SUNG BY THE SEEKERS

Talk about misty eyes. This to my fellow Australians. Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi

Njaco · 07-22-2008, 07:00 AM

Great additions, Rabid and Emac!!

Emac44 · 07-27-2008, 09:15 PM

Njaco The Band Played Waltzing Matilda was written by Eric Bogle and is at such an Anti War Song and can be used as such just like I Was Only 19 (Walk in the Light Green) by Redgum. However Waltzing Matilda written by Australian Poet Laurette A B Patterson known effectionaly as The Banjo is sung by Australians every where and can mean a myrid of emotions to Australians. Waltzing Matilda is our Unofficial ANTHEM. Even Eric Bogle recognised this when he wrote The Band Played Walzing Matilda. When Australian Troops left for Foriegn Shores or even on ANZAC Day itself Waltzing Matilda is always played. And even to the extent when Australians are participating in International Sports Walzing Matilda will be sung by Aussies. I will give you an example Njaco. When John Williams comes out singing Watzing Matilda say at an Australian Rugby Union Match against New Zealand or England or even the hated French and even against International Rugby Board rules Waltzing Matilda is sung unofficialy after the National Anthems have been preformed. We as Australians refuse to be dictated to by any one and as such we sing Waltzing Matilda as a form of brotherly protest in the spirit of being Australian. And we sing Waltzing Matilda to encourage our sportsmen and women just as much as we as Australians encourage our Service Men and Women. As Australians we know the words to Waltzing Matilda better than our National Anthem Advance Australia Fair. Rabid placed The Band Played Waltzing Matilda as he sees it as an American. Which is fine and I thank him for it. But the true nature of being Australian can only come about being Australian. As Waltzing Matilda was sung by our WW1 WW2 Malaya Korea Vietnam Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans etc. So that is why I added the Seekers Version of Waltzing Matilda with one of Australia's best known singers Judith Durham singing the song. It strikes home to Australians very much more so. It links itself to our ANZAC Heritage but it also links itself to just being an Aussie. Us Aussies do find inspiration from the strangest places at times. Just put it down to our nature of seeing things a bit different as being citizens of the Great Southern Sun Burnt Land we call home and is known as AUSTRALIA. We truely are as John Patrick O'Grady once wrote about Australians in his Book A Weird Mob but we are what we are Proud Aussies who will defend our freedoms to be exactly what we are. And I know other Aussies watching the Seekers version of Watzing Matilda would shed a tear. Their hearts will burst with pride and their minds will think about Australia and being Australian. Waltzing Matilda brings all that to us and more so Njaco

Njaco · 07-27-2008, 09:20 PM

Understood, Emac. One of my favorite vinyls (yes, I have an exstensive collection of vinyl "records"

) is a double ablum of Australian songs. Love it. haven't played it in years as my turntable lost its needle but I remember a few of the songs. Several versions of "Waltzing Maltilda" on it. I'm kinda goofy like that. have a few records of Louisiana Cajun music along with another of Gregorian Chants. Softens up the Led Zeppelin in me.

Emac44 · 07-27-2008, 09:51 PM

By the way that what I said wasn't a slight against Rabid in any way. I just felt it was necassary to explain why Walzing Matlida is held in such high essteem by Aussies and how we find as Aussies a spirit in ourselves when singing about a swagman who steals a sheep and drowns himself to avoid capture by a land owner and the police. In reality its the first and utmost protest against authority as Australians have this personality of disliking and rebelling against authority. It is the spirit of being Australian Njaco of being FREE and we cherish it until death and defend it with our deaths if need be. We as Australians will never succumb to our Freedoms being taken away from us. And in the words of my fellow Aussies. Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi

Wayne Little · 07-28-2008, 06:33 AM

Right on Emac....

Lucky13 · 07-28-2008, 06:43 AM

Here's to you Aussies?

RabidAlien · 07-28-2008, 06:52 AM

*G* No slights taken, Emac! I totally and completely (as far as a non-Aussie is able) understand where you're coming from. I would imagine the rest of the world hears Lee Greenwood's "God Bless The USA" and thinks "okay, nice song", whereas I absolutely cannot hear that without getting choked up inside. So no offense taken, none intended, and I will stand here (well....slouch in my 'pooter chair, really) and salute you and all other Aussies.

YouTube - God Bless the U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood

Emac44 · 07-28-2008, 06:39 PM

Returns the salute to our Gallant Friends and Allies the USA. Rabid the one thing I thought of was both your country and mine cherish FREEDOM and to choose what we want to do with our lives within our own countries. We are on the same page just approach it differently as we see it. There is no doubt at all that Aussies Yanks Brits Kiwis and any Country that values FREEDOM over oppression will survive these times of uncertainty as our nations have always stood against tyranny. We Aussies see our wide brown land as you Americans see your own country in a similar fashion to us. But that is only slight differences. I think we are not that different we just say it differently which means ultimately the same thing. By the way I did like God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood made me feel grateful to having such good friends across the Pacific Ocean. But given that Rabid even though we approach FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY from different angles on the same page that very FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY gives us that right to agree to disagree at times but we defend our mutual FREEDOMS that we all share. So GOD BLESS ALL NATIONS WHO VALUE FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY

Njaco · 07-29-2008, 07:03 AM

Hear, hear!!!

RabidAlien · 07-29-2008, 07:26 AM

Amen, Emac!

It doesn't matter the flavor, Freedom is still Freedom and Oppression is still Oppression the world over. And Freedom, no matter the source, will always stand against Oppression.

Emac44 · 07-30-2008, 05:06 AM

MY COUNTRY by Dorothea Mackellar

The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes
Of ordered woods and greens
Is still running in your viens
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but can not share
My loves is otherwise

I love a sunburnt country
A land of sweeping plains
Of rugged mountain ranges
Of droughts and flooding rains
I love her far horizons
I love her jewel-sea
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me

The stark white ring-barked forests
All tragic to the moon
The sapphire-misted moutains
The hot gush of noon
Green tangle of the brushes
Where the lianas coil
And orchids deck the tree tops
And ferns the warm dark soil

Core of my heart. My Country
Her pitiless blue skies
When, sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die
But when the grey clouds gather
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army
The steady soaking rain

Core of my heart. My Country
Land of rainbow gold
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold
Over the thirsty paddocks
Watch after many days
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze

An opal-hearted country
A wileful lavish land
All you who have not loved her
You will not understand
Though Earth holds many splendours
Whenever I may die
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

A poetic tribute to my fellow Australians. The words are not mine but our songster Dorothea MacKellar. Who wrote of Love of Country and compared Australia to England whence she came from. But over the years MY COUNTRY symbolizes Australia.

And of course we NEVER will FORGET OUR ANZACs LEST WE FORGET

YouTube - Anzac Day Tribute - Amazing Grace & The Last Post

And to often we Aussies forget to mention our New Zealand Mates. Who have often stood by us Aussies when things were tough. You Kiwis are our mates and I found this video on Youtube and is my tribute to our friends across the Tasman. To those who may recognise the song or to those who don't. Its called Po Karekare Ana. Please don't ask me what it means as I don't speak Maori. But basically it is a love song of a New Zealand Sailor during World War 1 to his girlfriend back in New Zealand. I believe the song was written about 1914 but had various updates and was used in New Zealand in song sheet fashion to gain funds for Returned New Zealand Service Men from World War 1 Retirement fund etc. However the Folksong Po Karakare Ana is a beautiful song of New Zealand

YouTube - Tribute To The New Zealand Military No. 2

Njaco · 08-08-2008, 10:57 AM

Started a thread on this but I wanted to post here also. Its great!

The Gratitude Campaign

Njaco · 08-13-2008, 06:42 AM

Just recieved mor pics of the USS New York that has some of the steel from the WTC used in its construction.

07-13-2008, 07:39 PM	#121
RabidAlien Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Hurst, Texas Posts: 3,484	Hey, NJ, hope you don't mind me posting a Youtube vid here. I'll blame it on chlorine, but my eyes are kinda misty after hearing this.... YouTube - Liam Clancy - Band Played Waltzing Matilda __________________ Pillage, then burn. Argue not with dragons, for thou art crunchy and go well on toast.

07-22-2008, 07:00 AM	#123
Njaco The Pop-Tart Whisperer Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States Posts: 11,836	Great additions, Rabid and Emac!! __________________ "If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!" http://www.njcacoa.org/

07-27-2008, 09:15 PM	#124
Emac44 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Brisbane Queensland Posts: 1,581	Njaco The Band Played Waltzing Matilda was written by Eric Bogle and is at such an Anti War Song and can be used as such just like I Was Only 19 (Walk in the Light Green) by Redgum. However Waltzing Matilda written by Australian Poet Laurette A B Patterson known effectionaly as The Banjo is sung by Australians every where and can mean a myrid of emotions to Australians. Waltzing Matilda is our Unofficial ANTHEM. Even Eric Bogle recognised this when he wrote The Band Played Walzing Matilda. When Australian Troops left for Foriegn Shores or even on ANZAC Day itself Waltzing Matilda is always played. And even to the extent when Australians are participating in International Sports Walzing Matilda will be sung by Aussies. I will give you an example Njaco. When John Williams comes out singing Watzing Matilda say at an Australian Rugby Union Match against New Zealand or England or even the hated French and even against International Rugby Board rules Waltzing Matilda is sung unofficialy after the National Anthems have been preformed. We as Australians refuse to be dictated to by any one and as such we sing Waltzing Matilda as a form of brotherly protest in the spirit of being Australian. And we sing Waltzing Matilda to encourage our sportsmen and women just as much as we as Australians encourage our Service Men and Women. As Australians we know the words to Waltzing Matilda better than our National Anthem Advance Australia Fair. Rabid placed The Band Played Waltzing Matilda as he sees it as an American. Which is fine and I thank him for it. But the true nature of being Australian can only come about being Australian. As Waltzing Matilda was sung by our WW1 WW2 Malaya Korea Vietnam Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans etc. So that is why I added the Seekers Version of Waltzing Matilda with one of Australia's best known singers Judith Durham singing the song. It strikes home to Australians very much more so. It links itself to our ANZAC Heritage but it also links itself to just being an Aussie. Us Aussies do find inspiration from the strangest places at times. Just put it down to our nature of seeing things a bit different as being citizens of the Great Southern Sun Burnt Land we call home and is known as AUSTRALIA. We truely are as John Patrick O'Grady once wrote about Australians in his Book A Weird Mob but we are what we are Proud Aussies who will defend our freedoms to be exactly what we are. And I know other Aussies watching the Seekers version of Watzing Matilda would shed a tear. Their hearts will burst with pride and their minds will think about Australia and being Australian. Waltzing Matilda brings all that to us and more so Njaco Last edited by Emac44; 07-27-2008 at 09:42 PM.

07-27-2008, 09:20 PM	#125
Njaco The Pop-Tart Whisperer Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States Posts: 11,836	Understood, Emac. One of my favorite vinyls (yes, I have an exstensive collection of vinyl "records" ) is a double ablum of Australian songs. Love it. haven't played it in years as my turntable lost its needle but I remember a few of the songs. Several versions of "Waltzing Maltilda" on it. I'm kinda goofy like that. have a few records of Louisiana Cajun music along with another of Gregorian Chants. Softens up the Led Zeppelin in me. __________________ "If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!" http://www.njcacoa.org/

07-28-2008, 06:33 AM	#127
Wayne Little Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust. Posts: 14,850	Right on Emac.... __________________

07-27-2008, 09:51 PM	#126
Emac44 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Brisbane Queensland Posts: 1,581	By the way that what I said wasn't a slight against Rabid in any way. I just felt it was necassary to explain why Walzing Matlida is held in such high essteem by Aussies and how we find as Aussies a spirit in ourselves when singing about a swagman who steals a sheep and drowns himself to avoid capture by a land owner and the police. In reality its the first and utmost protest against authority as Australians have this personality of disliking and rebelling against authority. It is the spirit of being Australian Njaco of being FREE and we cherish it until death and defend it with our deaths if need be. We as Australians will never succumb to our Freedoms being taken away from us. And in the words of my fellow Aussies. Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi

07-28-2008, 06:43 AM	#128
Lucky13 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 17,331	Here's to you Aussies? __________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"

07-28-2008, 06:52 AM	#129
RabidAlien Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Hurst, Texas Posts: 3,484	G No slights taken, Emac! I totally and completely (as far as a non-Aussie is able) understand where you're coming from. I would imagine the rest of the world hears Lee Greenwood's "God Bless The USA" and thinks "okay, nice song", whereas I absolutely cannot hear that without getting choked up inside. So no offense taken, none intended, and I will stand here (well....slouch in my 'pooter chair, really) and salute you and all other Aussies. YouTube - God Bless the U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood __________________ Pillage, then burn. Argue not with dragons, for thou art crunchy and go well on toast. Last edited by RabidAlien; 07-28-2008 at 06:57 AM.

07-28-2008, 06:39 PM	#130
Emac44 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Brisbane Queensland Posts: 1,581	Returns the salute to our Gallant Friends and Allies the USA. Rabid the one thing I thought of was both your country and mine cherish FREEDOM and to choose what we want to do with our lives within our own countries. We are on the same page just approach it differently as we see it. There is no doubt at all that Aussies Yanks Brits Kiwis and any Country that values FREEDOM over oppression will survive these times of uncertainty as our nations have always stood against tyranny. We Aussies see our wide brown land as you Americans see your own country in a similar fashion to us. But that is only slight differences. I think we are not that different we just say it differently which means ultimately the same thing. By the way I did like God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood made me feel grateful to having such good friends across the Pacific Ocean. But given that Rabid even though we approach FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY from different angles on the same page that very FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY gives us that right to agree to disagree at times but we defend our mutual FREEDOMS that we all share. So GOD BLESS ALL NATIONS WHO VALUE FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY Last edited by Emac44; 07-28-2008 at 07:05 PM.

07-29-2008, 07:03 AM	#131
Njaco The Pop-Tart Whisperer Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States Posts: 11,836	Hear, hear!!! __________________ "If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!" http://www.njcacoa.org/

07-29-2008, 07:26 AM	#132
RabidAlien Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Hurst, Texas Posts: 3,484	Amen, Emac! It doesn't matter the flavor, Freedom is still Freedom and Oppression is still Oppression the world over. And Freedom, no matter the source, will always stand against Oppression. __________________ Pillage, then burn. Argue not with dragons, for thou art crunchy and go well on toast.

07-30-2008, 05:06 AM	#133
Emac44 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Brisbane Queensland Posts: 1,581	MY COUNTRY by Dorothea Mackellar The love of field and coppice Of green and shaded lanes Of ordered woods and greens Is still running in your viens Strong love of grey-blue distance Brown streams and soft dim skies I know but can not share My loves is otherwise I love a sunburnt country A land of sweeping plains Of rugged mountain ranges Of droughts and flooding rains I love her far horizons I love her jewel-sea Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me The stark white ring-barked forests All tragic to the moon The sapphire-misted moutains The hot gush of noon Green tangle of the brushes Where the lianas coil And orchids deck the tree tops And ferns the warm dark soil Core of my heart. My Country Her pitiless blue skies When, sick at heart, around us We see the cattle die But when the grey clouds gather And we can bless again The drumming of an army The steady soaking rain Core of my heart. My Country Land of rainbow gold For flood and fire and famine She pays us back threefold Over the thirsty paddocks Watch after many days The filmy veil of greenness That thickens as we gaze An opal-hearted country A wileful lavish land All you who have not loved her You will not understand Though Earth holds many splendours Whenever I may die I know to what brown country My homing thoughts will fly. A poetic tribute to my fellow Australians. The words are not mine but our songster Dorothea MacKellar. Who wrote of Love of Country and compared Australia to England whence she came from. But over the years MY COUNTRY symbolizes Australia. And of course we NEVER will FORGET OUR ANZACs LEST WE FORGET YouTube - Anzac Day Tribute - Amazing Grace & The Last Post And to often we Aussies forget to mention our New Zealand Mates. Who have often stood by us Aussies when things were tough. You Kiwis are our mates and I found this video on Youtube and is my tribute to our friends across the Tasman. To those who may recognise the song or to those who don't. Its called Po Karekare Ana. Please don't ask me what it means as I don't speak Maori. But basically it is a love song of a New Zealand Sailor during World War 1 to his girlfriend back in New Zealand. I believe the song was written about 1914 but had various updates and was used in New Zealand in song sheet fashion to gain funds for Returned New Zealand Service Men from World War 1 Retirement fund etc. However the Folksong Po Karakare Ana is a beautiful song of New Zealand YouTube - Tribute To The New Zealand Military No. 2 Last edited by Emac44; 07-30-2008 at 08:00 AM.

08-08-2008, 10:57 AM	#134
Njaco The Pop-Tart Whisperer Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States Posts: 11,836	Started a thread on this but I wanted to post here also. Its great! The Gratitude Campaign __________________ "If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!" http://www.njcacoa.org/

08-13-2008, 06:42 AM	#135
Njaco The Pop-Tart Whisperer Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States Posts: 11,836	Just recieved mor pics of the USS New York that has some of the steel from the WTC used in its construction. Attached Images __________________ "If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!" http://www.njcacoa.org/

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