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Title: LEST WE FORGET
Post by: Tomado on Sat 25 Apr 2020 15:53:49
 :( It's ANZAC day lest we forget...
Title: Re: LEST WE FORGET
Post by: MrPurser on Sat 25 Apr 2020 16:03:55
Yes, but unfortunately the rememberance services have been curtailed by COVID19 - but I think everyone is still thinking of our fallen heroes regardless.
Title: Re: LEST WE FORGET
Post by: RAM on Sat 25 Apr 2020 16:52:59
I most certainly am thinking of my brother who came home from Vietnam scarred but unbowed, and of his mates, some who came home and got on with life, others who were irretrievably broken and those who did not return home at all.... RIP
Title: Re: LEST WE FORGET
Post by: Bondie on Sat 25 Apr 2020 18:35:23
My street had a driveway service this morning at 6am with one of the residents ( an ex music teacher & current local orchestra member) playing the last post on the trombone.
Interestingly every member of the street attended,  adults and children all with candles.
Very very emotional.
Title: Re: LEST WE FORGET
Post by: Newrace on Sun 26 Apr 2020 00:34:18
R.I.P. to all our fallen heroes :vsad: :vsad: :vsad:
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Post by: Guy on Sun 26 Apr 2020 07:21:17
Lest We Forget


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Post by: Whalanboy on Tue 25 Apr 2023 05:03:50
As Anzac day arrives and we pause to reflect I thought I would share a song that expresses how we feel.
A great tribute for our servicemen from a Sydney band called The hype boys (Formerly the Hype duo) with a similar style to John Schumann of Redgum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ezH9jSjhSo&list=OLAK5uy_ksapi0nXOI_smYS_8fWtkKwuRxsTctSp4&index=9 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ezH9jSjhSo&list=OLAK5uy_ksapi0nXOI_smYS_8fWtkKwuRxsTctSp4&index=9)

 :thankyou1: To all our service men and women.

Lest We Forget.
Title: Re: LEST WE FORGET
Post by: Hector McFreckle on Tue 25 Apr 2023 05:43:02
As Anzac day arrives and we pause to reflect I thought I would share a song that expresses how we feel.
A great tribute for our servicemen from a Sydney band called The hype boys (Formerly the Hype duo) with a similar style to John Schumann of Redgum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ezH9jSjhSo&list=OLAK5uy_ksapi0nXOI_smYS_8fWtkKwuRxsTctSp4&index=9 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ezH9jSjhSo&list=OLAK5uy_ksapi0nXOI_smYS_8fWtkKwuRxsTctSp4&index=9)

 :thankyou1: To all our service men and women.

Lest We Forget.


Thanks for sharing that Whalanboy....goodonya mate !   Lest We Forget  :thankyou1: :Goodjob:
Title: Re: LEST WE FORGET
Post by: RAM on Tue 25 Apr 2023 06:55:22
ANZAC Day is a very special day for my family as we join in quiet reflection on the loss of family friend, Tony, and of my brother's Army mates Locke, Pete and Bob who were killed in Vietnam all those years ago.... and of those we did not know but who also made the ultimate sacrifice.

Also, to those who's service scarred them for life. For some the horrors of war became too much to bear, while others even now continue to be haunted by events no one should ever be confronted with.
 
Never, ever forgotten.
RAM

Title: Re: LEST WE FORGET
Post by: Ratso on Tue 25 Apr 2023 10:55:20
Blow, Bugle, Blow
The splendour falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,
And thinner, clearer, farther going!
O sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

O love, they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.

Alfred Lord Tennyson