Month: April 2004

Today is ANZAC Day in Australia. We remember on this day our country men and women that have given their lives in conficts around the world.

Many people believe that ANZAC Day was a celebration of war and suffering, however they would be wrong. ANZAC Day is about remembering that conflicts and wars do happen and that people like you and me had conviction enough to fight and die for their country and ideals.

I would like to include here a quote from a poem my daughter performed at her school parade.

To The Fallen – Laurence Binyon

th songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow,
They were staunch to the end against odd uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.

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,

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the daytime;
They sleep beyond the foam.

But were our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their land, they are known
As the stars are known to the night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.

I remember my grandfather at this time…