For the first time there were no dawn services, no parades, no crowds lining the streets, no beers at the pub with our mates, no two-up games etc. to remember our fallen heroes.
This morning I paid my respects at sunrise, like many around the country, by placing a candle in my driveway. At 0600, facing east with the sun just coming up, I stood with head bowed wearing my Signals Corps beret for a minutes' silence after which I held a salute for the playing of the last post (in my mind only as there was no band with a bugler in my street). I was wearing, along with my own service medals, those of my father who served as a 'spotter' with the AIF New Guinea Air Warning Wireless Company, and those of my mother who served in the Women's Royal Australian Air Force.
Yesterday I heard this song played on the radio for the first time in a long time. It always makes the hair on my neck stand on end and brings a lump in my throat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrXxACZRx30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrXxACZRx30)
Quote from: krusty on April 24, 2020, 03:41:01 PM
For the first time there were no dawn services, no parades, no crowds lining the streets, no beers at the pub with our mates, no two-up games etc. to remember our fallen heroes.
This morning I paid my respects at sunrise, like many around the country, by placing a candle in my driveway. At 0600, facing east with the sun just coming up, I stood with head bowed wearing my Signals Corps beret for a minutes' silence after which I held a salute for the playing of the last post (in my mind only as there was no band with a bugler in my street). I was wearing, along with my own service medals, those of my father who served as a 'spotter' with the AIF New Guinea Air Warning Wireless Company, and those of my mother who served in the Women's Royal Australian Air Force.
Yesterday I heard this song played on the radio for the first time in a long time. It always makes the hair on my neck stand on end and brings a lump in my throat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrXxACZRx30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrXxACZRx30)
Thank you and yours for your service.
and for sharing "I was only 19"
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