Lest we forget

On 25 April Australians and New Zealanders honor their fighting men of the past and the present, our ANZACs.

Few of us today see war in the glorified light that it was viewed in times gone by. Television has brought the reality of the horrors of war into our living rooms ever since the Vietnam War.

However, regardless of how we feel about the ‘wrongness’ of war, it is a part of our global landscape and whilst that is the case, men and women are in the field defending our national point of view and sometimes our sovereignty.

These men and women are often in harms way and deserve to be honoured for their steadfastness and bravery.

As we honour our fallen heroes, so should we honour our living ones.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning-

We will remember them.

Lest we Forget.

The Ode comes from For the Fallen,

a poem by the English poet and writer Laurence Binyon