ANZAC Faith: How Easter’s Cross Shaped Our Diggers, By John Steele

 Stand at an ANZAC dawn service, and you feel it—the Cross and the slouch hat, bound by sacrifice. Easter's story, Christ dying and rising, wasn't just a sermon for our diggers; it was their fire at Gallipoli, Kokoda, beyond. Blokes in trenches clutched rosaries, said prayers, and faced hell with faith in their guts. That Christian spirit—love, duty, hope—made Australia's heroes. Now, woke types want to bleach it out, turning ANZAC Day into a secular yarn about "mateship" with no God. Schools skip the Bible, media dodge the truth, all to please a crowd that'd rather forget our roots. Easter's when we fight back. The Cross that steadied our diggers can steady us—against revisionist rot, for faith, for Australia. Let's honor ANZAC by keeping Easter Christian, loud and proud.

The diggers' faith wasn't subtle. At Gallipoli in 1915, men whispered Psalms as bullets flew; chaplains held Easter services in the mud, linking Christ's tomb to their mates. Kokoda was no different—soldiers carried pocket Gospels, praying for strength on that brutal track. Vietnam, too, blokes finding courage in the Crucifixion's promise: sacrifice wins. It wasn't just personal; it was Australia. Christian values—do right, stand by your mate—came from the Cross, shaping a nation that punched above its weight. War memorials still carry crosses, etched with "Greater love hath no man." Easter's message wasn't abstract; it was the diggers' backbone, giving them grit to face death for king, country, and God.

But that's under fire now. Woke crusaders—think Leftist university lecturers and ABC talking heads—want ANZAC faith erased. In Melbourne, schools teach Gallipoli as a "tragedy," not a testament, skipping the prayers that held men together. A Canberra principal banned a cross at an ANZAC ceremony—too "divisive," she said. Secular history books call diggers' faith "context," not core, while pushing "inclusive" tales that dilute their Christian heart. It's deliberate—since the 1990s, religious studies in schools dropped 15%, replaced by woke dogma. The Left's game is clear: strip God from our heroes, turn Australia into a rootless blob. Lose the Cross, and we lose the digger spirit—courage, unity, truth—that defines us.

Aussies aren't copping it. In Cairns, RSLs run ANZAC-Easter services, packing halls with kids learning both stories. A mum, Jen, in Dubbo, teaches her boys about diggers' prayers alongside Jesus' victory—her mates are now at it. This Easter, tell your kids why the Cross and ANZAC matter—read John 15, share a digger's tale. Hit church, pray for the fallen. If your school's gone woke, show up, demand truth—crosses, not "harmony" days. Vote for pollies who'll keep faith flying. Every hymn, every yarn, ties Easter to ANZAC, defying the Left's rewrite. Raise the Cross, honour the diggers, save Australia—lest we forget!