ANZAC DAY AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
I am off to the dawn service to commemorate the fallen soldiers of our country. I thought I would share this with my fellow BK members.
Excerpted from Wikipedia
Anzac Day marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. The acronym ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, whose soldiers were known as Anzacs. Anzac Day remains one of the most important national occasions of both Australia and New Zealand This is a rare instance of two sovereign countries not only sharing the same remembrance day, but making reference to both countries in its name.
The Ode comes from For the Fallen, a poem by the English poet and writer Laurence Binyon and was published in London in the Winnowing Fan; Poems of the Great War in 1914. The verse, which became the League Ode was already used in association with commemoration services in Australia in 1921
They shall grow not old, as we that 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.”[
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The Ode is then followed by the Last Post. It always bring a tear to my eyes and a lump to my throat. Lest We Forget.