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Re: Google spits on Veterans and American History
Your question Pastor Zeke is difficult to answer. We should hold these services, but not all New Zealanders are as pro-American as myself. 
Today most New Zealanders regard the United States as our Big Friend and Trading Partner. We have also adopted many American cultural values and traditions. - So we honour living Americans more as a Nation than those who died serving God's favorite country.
We do hold services for the US Servicemen who were stationed in Wellington during WWII, after June 1942:
Marines of the US Embassy "troop the colours". Also pictured (L) Dr David Keegan, Embassy Chargé d'Affaires, ® Dr. Wayne Mapp, NZ Minister of Defence.U.S. Marines Remembered in Wellington on Memorial Day
On Monday, May 25 the New Zealand American Association hosted the U.S. Embassy, Embassy guests, dignitaries and members of the public at a Memorial Day commemorative ceremony at Wellington’s Old St Pauls. The ceremony also marked the closing of A Friend in Need, an exhibition showcasing the US Marines in Wellington during World War II. A Friend in Need has been on display at Old St Pauls for the last two years, and will now be moving to a new home at the National Army Museum in Waiouru.
U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires Dr David Keegan spoke to the audience assembled at Old St Pauls, invoking memories of World War II U.S. Marines and servicemen gathered together 65 years earlier in that same place; of the bonds of friendship and camaraderie formed between the Americans and New Zealanders in those years; and of the special relationship that has endured ever since.
The Memorial Day ceremony included a trooping of the colours by Marines of the Embassy’s guard detachment, and the laying of memorial wreaths, such as those laid by Lt General Jeremiah Mateparae, the Chief of the NZ Defence Force, on behalf of the NZDF; by NZ Defence Minister Hon. Dr Wayne Mapp and leader of the Opposition Hon Phil Goff on behalf of the NZ government and parliament; and by Air Vice Marshall (Rtd) Robin Klitscher on behalf of the Royal NZ Returned and Services Association … (more)
US troops arriving at Wellington, 1942
The arrival of the US forces marked the introduction of the milkshake and the hamburger to NZ, the latter because US troops would not eat sheep products!
So New Zealand is still a young country and we have much to learn.
YIC
Bryan.
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Today most New Zealanders regard the United States as our Big Friend and Trading Partner. We have also adopted many American cultural values and traditions. - So we honour living Americans more as a Nation than those who died serving God's favorite country.
We do hold services for the US Servicemen who were stationed in Wellington during WWII, after June 1942:
Marines of the US Embassy "troop the colours". Also pictured (L) Dr David Keegan, Embassy Chargé d'Affaires, ® Dr. Wayne Mapp, NZ Minister of Defence.U.S. Marines Remembered in Wellington on Memorial DayOn Monday, May 25 the New Zealand American Association hosted the U.S. Embassy, Embassy guests, dignitaries and members of the public at a Memorial Day commemorative ceremony at Wellington’s Old St Pauls. The ceremony also marked the closing of A Friend in Need, an exhibition showcasing the US Marines in Wellington during World War II. A Friend in Need has been on display at Old St Pauls for the last two years, and will now be moving to a new home at the National Army Museum in Waiouru.
U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires Dr David Keegan spoke to the audience assembled at Old St Pauls, invoking memories of World War II U.S. Marines and servicemen gathered together 65 years earlier in that same place; of the bonds of friendship and camaraderie formed between the Americans and New Zealanders in those years; and of the special relationship that has endured ever since.
The Memorial Day ceremony included a trooping of the colours by Marines of the Embassy’s guard detachment, and the laying of memorial wreaths, such as those laid by Lt General Jeremiah Mateparae, the Chief of the NZ Defence Force, on behalf of the NZDF; by NZ Defence Minister Hon. Dr Wayne Mapp and leader of the Opposition Hon Phil Goff on behalf of the NZ government and parliament; and by Air Vice Marshall (Rtd) Robin Klitscher on behalf of the Royal NZ Returned and Services Association … (more)
US troops arriving at Wellington, 1942
The arrival of the US forces marked the introduction of the milkshake and the hamburger to NZ, the latter because US troops would not eat sheep products!
So New Zealand is still a young country and we have much to learn.
YIC
Bryan.
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