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Socials / At the Anzac Day National Ceremony, Australian War Memorial

 

THE view down Anzac Parade, across Lake Burley Griffin and on to the old and new Parliament Houses is spectacular.

Fill it with people eager to be part of the centenary commemorations of that fateful Anzac landing at Gallipoli and the ensuing catastrophe and you can’t help but feel a sense of an occasion that epitomises our egalitarian spirit, has a sense of reverence and, of course, respect.

It is our day to be part of the ceremonial and the celebratory to acknowledge and applaud all who have served us in many theatres of war then and now.

We are not too pompous, nor too regimented in the march past. We hoped the horses wouldn’t bolt as they hauled a gun into the arena and caught a breath as HRH the Duke of Kent slipped a bit on his way to lay a wreath as head of the Commonwealth War Graves. We appreciated that the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove, had already represented us in Wellington, NZ, for their dawn service and whizzed back to be here for this occasion.

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Thank you,

Ian Meikle, editor

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