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Apr 25, 2022 · Anzac Day National Address. 25 April 2022. 5 mins read. His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd). This is Ngunnawal Country. Today we are all meeting together on this Ngunnawal Country. We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Elders. I also acknowledge our current serving men and women, veterans and their families and ...
Apr 25, 2020 · This year, our Anzac Day traditions have been interrupted. But not for the first time. On Anzac Day 1919 — the first Anzac Day after the Great War — there were no city marches or parades for the returning veterans, because Australians were battling the Spanish flu pandemic. Though our streets were empty, the returning veterans were not ...
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Every Anzac Day, from the greatest memorial to the simplest cenotaph, we honour all who have served in our name, and all who serve today. It is a collective act of remembrance, reflection and gratitude – one carried out by multiple generations of Australians and devoted to multiple generations.
Words of Remembrance. The following was written by Pericles well over two thousand years ago, long before the first ANZAC Day, but only a stone’s throw from Gallipoli: Each has won a glorious grave - not that sepulchre of earth wherein they lie, but the living tomb of everlasting remembrance wherein their glory is enshrined.
Apr 20, 2015 · It says the words are set in stone in Anzac memorials “without proper evidence”. Today Honest History, which is supported by some of Australia’s leading historians and writers, publishes...
Sample speeches for Anzac Day and Remembrance Day. Use these speeches as a starting point for your own commemoration. We encourage local communities to research a veteran from their local area and to highlight their service in the speech.
Apr 25, 2023 · The Memorial to the Missing, the iconic Cross of Remembrance, and each and every headstone stand as eternal reminders of the cost of the liberties and freedoms we privileged to enjoy today. We gather here on Anzac Day, as the day dawns over Bomana, in fellowship with friends, in quiet personal reflection and in our collective act of commemoration.
