U.S. MARINES, 1st Marine Division adopted popular Australian ballad “Waltzing Matilda” as their official song, commemorating the time they spent in Australia during the Second World War. We’re honored Marines [Respect].
We Are The Mighty | Blake Stilwell
When considering music that we’d want to play as we ship out to a combat zone, very few of us would think of choosing a 19th century Australian folk song about a hobo who stole a sheep. And yet, that’s exactly what the Marines of the 1st Marine Division do en masse. It may seem odd that United States Marines choose to deploy using Australia’s unofficial national anthem, but a closer look at the history of the unit (and how the song ends) helps make sense of it all.
During World War II, the Marines of “the Old Breed,” the 1st Marine Division, famously began the first Allied offensive against Japan in the Pacific at Guadalcanal. Armed with old Springfield M1903 rifles and meager stores of food and ammunition, the Marines wrested control of the island from Japan in just over six months, earning them their first of three Presidential Unit Citations in WWII and a well-deserved rest in Australia.
After the months of fighting and privation, the Marines were looking worse for wear. Sick from dysentery and weak, the men were just worn out. When they first docked in Brisbane, they were housed in what amounted to a series of shacks in swampland.
When the Marines’ commander, General Alexander Vandegrift, ordered that the entire division be moved, the Navy told him there was no way to spare the number of ships needed — and they had nowhere to go, anyway. That’s where Admiral William “Bull” Halsey and the city of Melbourne came in. Australia’s second-largest city offered to take them with open arms and Halsey would get them there.
[Read the full story and learn how the song ends]
[Editor’s Comment] Waltzing Matilda IS AUSTRALIA! It tells our story and everyone is proud to share our history. It’s recognized around the world with great fondness! I proudly went to war with this song as our popular, preferred but unofficial national anthem.
It’s now time to restore our pride, our dignity and our identity…Dump that soppy, socialist claptrap ‘Advance Australia Fair’ and EMBRACE WALTZING MATILDA AS OUR OFFICIAL NATIONAL ANTHEM!!
If it’s good enough for the U.S. Marines it’s good enough for us!!
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Steve, Just One Focus – Truth.
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