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Matua Kahurangi

Hands off Anzac Day

Stop rewriting our history

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Matua Kahurangi
May 15, 2025
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Remembrance Poppies. Do you know the remembrance poppy? How… | by Heloise  Jones | Medium

Not long ago, I wrote about the Auckland War Memorial Museum selling rainbow poppies in the lead-up to Anzac Day. They called it a gesture of “inclusivity”. I wonder if they realize that homosexuality was illegal during both World Wars. Men caught engaging in same-sex relationships were dishonourably discharged, jailed, or worse. To now retroactively in…

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