[nightsailor]

As a sailor who had been around Gallipoli last week with my boat and ANZAC friends, we visited some of the monuments, war memmorials surronded by a beatifull nature, full of colors and flowers.
As usual, I have diffuculty to express my deep feelings about Gallipoli.

We all agree that any kind of War, for any purpose, can't be acceptable.
But after walking in these hills with friends from very far away, I've seen that War, may be as the only example in the world history, which created same sentiments on both sites of the trenches.

Between many poets and writers who expressed their feelings on this land piece, one is worth to remember which deeply express not only one soldier's own feelings but the hole nation's instead.

“Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives;
You're now lying in the soil of a friendly country, therefore rest in peace,
There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us
Where they lie side by side here in this country of ours.
You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries,
Wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are at peace.
After having lost their lives on this land, they have become our sons as well.”

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
President of Turkish Republic