Today is Anzac Day - 25th April 2017

[slick_mick]

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.

Lest We Forget

[Chipper]

Lest we forget

[Drummajor]

Lest We Forget.

[leigh kitchen]

An "ANZAC song", it may not be to everyone's taste but I feel it's appropriate:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iUMZEFH6CFE

[Tinto]

We Will Remember Them.
Pictures taken in 2008.

[Mike Jackson]

Originally Posted by leigh kitchen

An "ANZAC song", it may not be to everyone's taste but I feel it's appropriate:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iUMZEFH6CFE

Excellent and very moving. try this song too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI

Mike

[Mike Jackson]

And fast forward to the 1960s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY

[Mike Jackson]

and then to Afghanistan - in a modern genre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BZ6aqgvdFI

[leigh kitchen]

I've "always" liked the Bogle song, also Red Gums "A Walk in the Green" ( I like this version of the video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1gmgwx77osw )
Luke O'Sheas "Three Brothers" makes a point, if you forgive the limited budget video.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvjoev23Ojw
And then there's Cold Chisel's Khe San.......

[Jackhr]

Lest We Forget.

We had a wet dawn service and at 10.40 am we had a RAAF FLY-PAST, over The Cenotaph at Portarlington.

[slick_mick]

A very good turn out today at the dawn service in Balmain.

Mick

[johnG]

In spirit I was at the memorial in Kings Park.

[Mike B]

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep

By Mary Elizabeth Frye

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.



Source: http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poe...grave-and-weep

[POMPEY621]

Pozières

[BWEF]

There was a Dawn Service this morning at Hyde Park Corner, London:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...-a3522846.html

http://uk.embassy.gov.au/lhlh/eventsanzacd.html

https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/countrie...s-2017-london/

There is usually also a service at Harefield Hospital. This is from a couple of years ago. Over 100 Australians are buried in the local cemetery.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-2...tients/6392058

Harefield House Hospital was (No. 1 Australian Auxilliary Hospital) during WW1:

https://www.awm.gov.au/sites/default...d/AWM338_8.pdf

My maternal great uncle emigrated before WW1 and was in the AIF.