It was on the school run that we heard that someone was 104 today.
So the family comments ‘ they must have been alive in WW1.’
Yes & some would have been your age that went of to WW1.
Did they return &.I reflect on how I would be if that tragedy was to occur to us.
We would be devastated..
So ANZAC day allows us to reflect & take our minds off ourselves & the present trivia & trite stuff.
I know my father really struggled on his return from 6 years service in WW2.
We drive past a Andrew Ave so named after a young Andrew Clarke who lived on the street who did not return
I have run through the Avenue of trees that were planted in Yeronga Memorial park.
Through the Memorial Gates
Yes remembering those 72 local men who died in World war 1.
Hence Honor Avenue lined with alternating Fig & Flame trees with memorial plagues for each Fallen soldier.
Students from the neighbouring State School tend each tree.
the Cenotaph which was built to remember the Fallen.
The local protest when the council & architect wanted their names there.
They were removed.
Rosemary planted as it argues the rosemary helps the memory.
We have driven up the Avenue of trees that are planted in Albany WA to remember all those ANZACs who left from there in WW1.
How many such Avenues are there in Australia?
Yes there are Memorials with names in too many cities, towns & suburbs.
And this would be worldwide.
So today lets maximise the moment & be grateful & celebrate that life is perhaps too good here thanx to those heroes from the past.
Let’s have some more gratitude & positivity.
Certainly happiness & more joy.
Yes Sir.
