re: "by the way, April 26th is "Hug an Australian Day." ;-)"

Hey - They must have known - April 26 is my birthday!! All hugs gratefully received!!!

I wonder if "they" made a mistake - it would be far more appropriate to hug an Aussie the day before, April 25, now observed by a public holiday ("ANZAC Day"). It refers to the day in WW1 when a combined force of Oz and Zild soldiers stormed the Turkish forces holding the cliffs at Gallipoli Cove. Our boys died by the thousand. Pretty tough when the population of the whole country at the time was somewhat more than a million - and considerably less in Zild.

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