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Every year on ANZAC Day, Australians pause to remember the men who stormed the beaches of Gallipoli and those who followed them into later wars. But we do not remember them in a vacuum. To remember the ANZACs is to recall a particular kind of Australian. That is, men shaped and motivated by a distinct vision of nation, duty, identity, and moral order. Yet for many of us, there is now an undeniable disconnect between what the ANZACs stood for and what “modern Australia” now claims to be. The further modern Australia distances itself from nationalism, patriotism, Christianity, and a coherent sense of identity, the harder it becomes to remember the ANZACs without noticing that growing contradiction. What we once were is no longer what we are. Here are five reasons why. https://www.caldronpool.com/p/the-anzac-spirit