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Today (April 25th), Australia and New Zealand recognise Anzac Day. Does your nation celebrate a catastrophic military defeat?
They shall not grow old, as we who are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning ... we will remember them. Lest We Forget.
The closest thing we have is Memorial Day. It kind could be said it was devised out of a military defeat since the day as we know it today is the merging the Union Norths decoration day with the ex-Confederate South's Confederate Memorial day. The there is Veterans day that would be our WW1 observance holiday.
