Anzac Day 2010

On the eve of Anzac Day, 2010, I would like to take this opportunity to wish the many Veterans, and all present and former ADF members who frequent this site, a great day of rememberance tomorrow, with mateship's rekindled, as we turn our minds to the events the day will bring. I look forward to this day each year, catching up with mates and reigniting memories from many years ago.

I would like to share a poem with you, one I'd not seen before today.

Lest We Forget.

Fields of the Somme. ( by A.C. Jobbe )

A sunset glows over the sacrificial altar, over those fields of the Somme.

The air is still.

Yet, do the fields still retain the screams, the cries, the broken dreams of broken lives?

The ground is still.

The tremors of exploding shells that reaped young boys running from trenches echo in the silent grass.

The hearts are still.

Of those who came for valour but who, in an instant, tasted the battleground and sowed them with their souls.

And every day a sunset glows bright red.

The air is still. The ground is still. The hearts are still.

Another day, hushed,

remembers.


Fred. (R A N 65/71)