No one told us it would be like this.

Tena ra tatou katoa.

He korero na Alistair Te Ariki Campbell e pa ana ki te ANZAC pakanga i tu ki Gallipoli

Ka awatea ka tineia te kamokamo o te mata o te kanohi, katahi ka timata matou ki te whawhai o taua rangi nei. Ko nga Taitama o te pamu, o te kohao whenua, o te taone, o te kura ranei, i matea i te puke pupu rere a i matea hoki matou i te puke tupapaku i takotokoto ai. Kihai te tangata i pohehetia ai
Ka maumaharahara kia ratou ma.

New Zealand poet Alistair Te Ariki Campbell wrote this about the ANZACs in Gallipoli:

"The light of adventure that shone so brightly in our eyes when we set out was extinguished that day. Young men from the farms, the mines, the cities, the public schools, we died in a vast quagmire of blood and broken bodies. No one told us it would be like this."

We will remember them.

 The Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

While John Key mumbles inanely about sending Kiwi troops to Iraq to fight against "ISIS" and "ISIL" etc, because of "alleged atrocities" Key is socialising with the Saudis, despite the fact that there have been over forty beheadings in Saudi Arabia so far this year.