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It is now a big thing for Australia and Turkey to be at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli on Anzac Day to both commemerate and celebrate the actions of BOTH sides, which is very generous of Turkey to allow thousands of Aussies and Kiwis to go to their own country and remember how we tried to invade their country. I'm not suggesting that Japanese soldiers would be allowed to march in our marches, like the W-SS, in the East anyway, too much cruelty went on. But for units like the Afrika Korp, which was certainly an honourable army, and the Fallschirmjager, I don't see it would be a problem. After all, plenty of those guys are honourary members of their opposing sides associations now. I'm sure any surviving Aussies who fought in Africa wouldn't hold hatred for Rommel and his Afrika Korp, they'd probably like to march together I reckon, and then get on the piss down at the club afterwards, bragging about who did what and when!

Likewise, and I don't know for sure, but I'm sure vets of the mighty 8th Air Force, or Battle of Britain vets, wouldn't mind having the Luftwaffe day fighter pilots joining in. Once again, there are plenty of pilots who are honourary members of the other sides associations now. It has been a long time, and I think it would be a good thing for people to see that we're all friends now, and the madness of mass combat is a thing of the past. Seeing say, the U-boat survivors and the Allied Destroyer survivors marching together would be a positive thing, I believe. As would the fighter/bomber survivors, Africa vets, Italian campaign, there are lots of old battlefronts where things were conducted without the hatred of the Eastern Front. However, not being a returned serviceman, I could be wrong, but I'd like to think I wasn't. I'm not an American, but I think Aussie Vietnam vets certainly wouldn't mind marching with their opposing numbers, who were, after all, just defending the country against a powerful invader. What do you all think?