Russell Crowe
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I mean, I was in army cadets in high school.
So, you know, that was a couple of days a week.
You dress up in an army uniform and you go to school instead of in your school uniform in jungle greens.
Just get you ready, man.
They're putting SLRs in the hands, which is like it's not an unusual thing for this country.
But it definitely is for Australia.
Put a self-loading rifle in the hands of a 13-year-old and teach him how to use it.
Well, this is the thing where, you know, Anzac Day that I talked about, it's April 25th.
Anzac stands for Australian New Zealand Army Corps because both the First World War and the Second World War, Australia and New Zealand combined their armed forces.
And in a lot of places fought alongside each other.
But, you know, we had that day as a memorial day as, you know, you have in this culture as well.
tend to forget that we have that day as a reminder that we should never do this again.
That's what it's there for, to respect the passing of these young people who died in battle, but to also remind ourselves of how pointless that whole thing was, how pointless the First World War was, how pointless the Second World War was.
Ultimately, it's just death.
And the people that started the war, the people who benefit from the war,
are not the ones generally standing at the graveside mourning their dead because they will protect themselves.
Their children don't have to go to war.
Their children are not going to get conscripted.
So it's like every time this stuff comes up and we now have โ