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Down Under
Rememberance Day in Australia
2008-11-11
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.


From "For The Fallen" - Laurence Binyon

This verse is recited every night in Returned Services clubs across Australia. At 11AM on the 11th day of the 11th Month, many Australians observe a minute silence.

Personaly, the verse makes me think of two of my father's uncles. They were Lighthorsemen, (horse mounted infantry) killed in Palestine in WW1. However, our military history doesn't record the battles they were in. Two are listed as dying from wounds, and one from illness.

Other than the brief record that they died, the only surviving information we can access are their charge sheets. So, we know that one died in Damascus, from wounds, but only after he had been "fizzed" for "loss of a bandolier".

Still, we remember them.
Posted by:Bunyip

#3  These photos at the Tim Blair website are amazing.
Posted by: Matt   2008-11-11 09:22  

#2  I salute you brave Diggers!
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-11-11 09:10  

#1  Expect a good, consistent friend like Australia to get the shitty end of the stick from the Democrats. That's cooperation and support that will surely drift towards dubious and untoward countries instead.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-11-11 08:24  

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