ANZAC Day

Kings Park War Memorial

The Last Post

The Ode came from 'For the Fallen', a poem by the English poet and writer Laurence Binyon and was published in London in The Winnowing Fan: Poems on the Great War in 1914.

The Ode

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.

We went to the ANZAC Day Dawn Service, and I was surprised to see the number of people gathered. News reports say that there were 40,000 people there, and judging by the sea of people I saw, I'd believe it. There were a number of video screens, so everyone could see what was happening. It was a moving ceremony with a solemn address.

Lest we forget.