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DZ Season 013 Part 08 ANZAC Day Fighting Mac (William McKenzie). Why We Remember. Final Part.
This is the final episode in the story of the man who the ANZAC’s Revered – Fighting Mac.
Mel Gibson told the story of Desmond Doss – the Seventh Day Adventist who refused to kill, was rejected by the men in his platoon and by the Army but at the Battle of Okinawa, on one day, 5th May 1945, saved the lives of 75 men.
This story is about a man who risked his life for 2½ years in the bloodiest fighting from being with the Australians at Gallipoli and then on the Western Front in Europe. A man whose repeated acts of bravery and selfless devotion to the men of the ANZAC, earned him their undying respect, and the undying respect of their families and loved ones back in Australia until the day that he died on 26 July 1947.
He was a man mobbed wherever he went when he returned to Australia from World War I. A man who was invited to give one of the three eulogies for the famous General John Monash after his funeral, with the first eulogy being delivered by Sir Harry Chauvel – commander of the legendary Australian Light Horse. After the war he was the guest of honour at many ANZAC Day services. At the end of those services it was not uncommon for his hands to be bleeding from shaking so many hands. So many hands desperate to touch his.
Yet today no statues of this man stand for the modern haters of the left to tear down – maybe that’s a good thing. What isn’t a good thing, is that this remarkable man, who makes the heroism of Desmond Doss, told in Mel Gibson’s movie, “Hacksaw Ridge” pale into insignificance, is almost totally forgotten – a fate that reflects poorly on us all.
God bless the Salvos - the Salvation Army.
Tag words: William McKenzie; Fighting Mac; ANZACs; Mel Gibson; Desmond Doss; Seventh Day Adventist; Battle of Okinawa; Western Front; General John Monash; Sir Harry Chauvel; Australian Light Horse; Hacksaw Ridge; Salvation Army Chaplain; Commissioner Hay; Salvation Army Commissioner Henry Howard; ANZAC Padré; Edward; Prince of Wales; King George V; Digger Prince; Chiang Kai-Shek; Mao Zedong; General George Carpenter; Salvation Army Brigadier Arthur McIlveen; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;
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By Paul FordyceThis is the final episode in the story of the man who the ANZAC’s Revered – Fighting Mac.
Mel Gibson told the story of Desmond Doss – the Seventh Day Adventist who refused to kill, was rejected by the men in his platoon and by the Army but at the Battle of Okinawa, on one day, 5th May 1945, saved the lives of 75 men.
This story is about a man who risked his life for 2½ years in the bloodiest fighting from being with the Australians at Gallipoli and then on the Western Front in Europe. A man whose repeated acts of bravery and selfless devotion to the men of the ANZAC, earned him their undying respect, and the undying respect of their families and loved ones back in Australia until the day that he died on 26 July 1947.
He was a man mobbed wherever he went when he returned to Australia from World War I. A man who was invited to give one of the three eulogies for the famous General John Monash after his funeral, with the first eulogy being delivered by Sir Harry Chauvel – commander of the legendary Australian Light Horse. After the war he was the guest of honour at many ANZAC Day services. At the end of those services it was not uncommon for his hands to be bleeding from shaking so many hands. So many hands desperate to touch his.
Yet today no statues of this man stand for the modern haters of the left to tear down – maybe that’s a good thing. What isn’t a good thing, is that this remarkable man, who makes the heroism of Desmond Doss, told in Mel Gibson’s movie, “Hacksaw Ridge” pale into insignificance, is almost totally forgotten – a fate that reflects poorly on us all.
God bless the Salvos - the Salvation Army.
Tag words: William McKenzie; Fighting Mac; ANZACs; Mel Gibson; Desmond Doss; Seventh Day Adventist; Battle of Okinawa; Western Front; General John Monash; Sir Harry Chauvel; Australian Light Horse; Hacksaw Ridge; Salvation Army Chaplain; Commissioner Hay; Salvation Army Commissioner Henry Howard; ANZAC Padré; Edward; Prince of Wales; King George V; Digger Prince; Chiang Kai-Shek; Mao Zedong; General George Carpenter; Salvation Army Brigadier Arthur McIlveen; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;