Lest We Forget

[HappilyManly]

 

[Harvies elbow]

To all our service men and women past and present

Thank you

Lest we forget

 

[HappilyManly]

 

[manlyfan76]

At stanthorpe in qld.
Dawn service started at 05:30 with a cannon firing! Really good service.

 

[Harvies elbow]

At stanthorpe in qld.
Dawn service started at 05:30 with a cannon firing! Really good service.

We had a great turn out here at The Entrance.
No cannons firing though, just a million lorikeets doing their annual flyover as soon as the anthem starts.
Lol.
You gotta love Aus...

 

[manlyfan76]

 

[manlyfan76]

We had a great turn out here at The Entrance.
No cannons firing though, just a million lorikeets doing their annual flyover as soon as the anthem starts.
Lol.
You gotta love Aus...

We had a magpie acompany the bugle for the ode which was actually really good.

 

[HappilyManly]

At DY Beach the lorikeets were nice and noisy throughout but the most amazing timing was that of the kookaburras who burst into voice right at the end of the reveiller - couldn't have been scripted better

 

[niccipops]

At our school service yesterday the children remained quiet for 45 minutes. When my little 5 and 6 year old wreath layers from my P/1 class stood with their heads bowed before the memorial my eyes misted up. It gets me every year.
Children so young somehow understand the importance of this commemoration.
And to my Dad. Tommy, who I'll see today, but can no longer march at Currumbin due to health, thanks Dad for representing our country.
To the fallen
Lest we forget.

 

[globaleagle]

 

[Bring back the.... Biff?]

Thank you for your sacrifices
Thank you for your honor
Thank you for your courage
Thank you for your service
God bless them.

We will never see there like again

 

[yokahontas]

My niece laid the wreath for her school at the cenotaph a couple of hundred metres from where I was born, and where my late grandfather (her great-grandfather) was one of the founding members of the RSL Sub-Branch. Her mum and I grew up participating in the services and marches with our school and swimming club there, and the catafalque party this morning was mounted by members of my old Army unit. Quite a few ‘shivers down the spine’ moments there.

And then a kid in the school group next to us fainted, and of course I’m there in my ambo uniform...so the kids are now telling everyone I saved a life at the dawn service - how embarrassment!

It was a fantastic service though, well-considered and well-delivered addresses from a wide range of community members. And absolutely incredible how much it has grown since we were kids, when it seemed like a small minority attended or participated. Huge turnout today and amazing how respectful and solemn everyone was, little kids included.

Lest We Forget.

 

[anthonyb1965]

I am always going back to the words in this song. I was lucky enough to tour with Eric in the early nineties.

Lest We Forget

 

[master blaster]

I was fortunate enough to be at the War Memorial in Canberra with my son amongst the other 30,000 plus. I have been there for a dawn service once before but It told my son that I wanted to go to a dawn service down there with him because you dont know what next year has in Store. It was great to hear nearly everyone join together for our National Anthem, it was very moving and at the end of the Service just as the announcer had said, that concludes the Service, right on cue, you could hear a few Kookaburra,s have their say, which was very appropriate lol.If you ever get the chance to get down there for a dawn service, do yourself a favor and do it, you wont regret it, I guarantee, My son loved it as he likes that stuff,he loves our history.. Lest We Forget