Vietnam War

War is a legalized violence against two or more countries and the war that I am studding is about the Vietnam.  The youngest men killed were 16 years old and the older man killed was 62 years old.  During the Vietnam war the many of the Americans women were wounded.

The Vietnam war started in 1957 and the Vietnam war was between the North and south Vietnam, this conflict started because the north Vietnam wanted to live the way that the south Vietnam were and some of the south Vietnamese agreed and a lot of the disagreed.  On the Allied Troop which is known as the south Vietnam .

During the war the war there were many new weapons invented by the Russians and they were tanks and snipers, and later on they invented a weapon called ancient orange they used this weapon to kill all the vegetations to make it harder for the allied troops and the snipers to hide and killed a lot of people.There a lot of people that lost their lives and it was about 6 million people and New Zealand lost 32 soldiers.

The conflict was resolved because U.S. backed out of the war and the North Vietnamese were outnumbered so they gave up and the South Vietnamese took over Saigon and named it Ho Chi Min city after a famous leader from the North Vietnam.  Now Vietnam is one communist country.

20 years after the war a lot of the Allied Troops and Vietnamese were very ill and this was caused by the ancient orange.

The oldest man killed was 62 years old and the five men that were killed were only 16 years old, and the war affected a lot of American woman's were wounded.

ANZAC Thinkers Key

This is my slide show all about ANZAC and what I've with the other works on it. I hope you enjoy.

Our Adventure to Easter Beach

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This is one of my 30 second video all about Panmure Bridge School's trip to Eastern Beach, enjoy.

ANZAC Parade Video

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This is a 30 second video, it is all about the ANZAC parade at Orakei RSA and in this video you will see three kind of cadets the first one is your going to see is G.I. SDA Pathfinders, Sea Cadets and the last one will be the Land Cadets. Hope you enjoy.

ANZAC Parade

ANZAC Parade

Left, left, left right left. Left, left, left right left...  On April the 25th the Pathfinders from Glenn Innes were invited by the Orakei RSA to march in the ANZAC parade and also to march with the other clubs.

On the day our club arrived at the Orakei RSA early so we waited for a long time and talked through what was going to happen and where we were going to march from, while we were there we notice that there was a club that bait us there and they were known as the sea scouts.

10 minutes after we noticed a lot of familiar and unfamiliar uniforms showing up, then we all took group photo together before we were ordered by our leader.  Later on it was time to march and we marched from the Orakei RSA car park to the front of the Orakei RSA sign.  First of all we started with a prayer and then the national anthem, we heard a lot of sad words coming out and also a lot of depressed faces.

Meanwhile after we were dismissed from parade we all gathered in the Orakei bar and had a game of pool table and drank a little like the soldiers back in those days during the war.  It was a long day but also a very sad day for the ones who died for our country and lest we not forget.

Community Serves

Community

Serves

Yesterday my pathfinder group and I went and helped out in the community serves and we also did it for our honour badge at the end of the year.  Some of us did this for the whole week and we were all wearing this t-shirts to represent ourselves, the community and also our church.

In this program there were three activities and my church was in the third group which was known as the barking group.  My groups job was to bark everywhere around Glen Innes central park and also pick up rubbish.  The first place that we cleaned and barked was the police station and the last one was near the Glen Innes central park, later on we all picked up rubbish around the receivers and it was for the same thing and when we had finished we realized that we had cleaned all four receivers and we were glad of ourselves.

We had all finished our community serves so we all headed back to base and from there on we all headed back home, but for the G.I. pathfinders we all had our lunch at the fish and chip Chinese shop.

I really enjoyed serving the community and I can not wait until next year.

Maruwai Bootcamp

On Friday myself and the pathfinder club all went down to Maruwai Boot camp, but we were the late comers so we got there late.

On Saturday our first activity for my class was drawing New Zealand's native trees and the two that I had was the Pohutukawa tree, and it is well know as New Zealand native tree and the other one was flags and I’m sure you all know that the Maoris used flags for a lot of certain things.

Later on after lunch we all got ready for our long walk to the beach.  On our way we  all came past particular rocks that were made out of the volcanic explosion and they all had odd shapes, because the massive waves kept hiding the rocks and formed a odd shape on the side.  These volcanic rocks are used for birds to built their nests and while we were there we saw a lot of people fishing.  After that we all walked back to Maruwai beach and then we were all instructed to get into our classes and make something that we learnt with the sand.  Later on after that activity we got put in 5 groups and our instruction was to make the deepest hole so that the shortest person could go deep in the hole, and my group won that challenge and we all received our price straight away.

When we all got back to the camp side we played a little game of volleyball, and all of a sudden a lot of our players were dragged out to their classes so we all so ended up in our class, and later on we all worked into our free choice so instead of free time we all ended watching T.V. after fellowship.

later on after dinner we all watched T.V. again and played around, then the Rangers ( my class ) were call to receive their treat and to receive our treat we had to say our memory gym again and if we had it right we got our price, and then the pathfinders were sent to bed.

Sunday was the last day of camp and after breakfast we all packed up our tents and loaded up the vans, then straight after that we practiced our marching for the ANZAC parade on Thursday.

on that last day I enjoyed our swim in the beach and we all experienced a life grade rescuing someone that were getting dragged out by the current and luckily he was all right.

That was an awesome camp and I can’t wait for the next one.