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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Walks it is! For the moment at least...

Marathons can wait.
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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.

It never ceases to amaze me that no matter where you are on ANZAC Day, no matter how much or how little you know about the troops landing on that Turkish Beach, we are humbled and silenced by the incomprehensible and unimaginable loss that was suffered during World War I. The chilling photographs of larrikin men, sitting with their fatigues rolled around their elbows, grinning as they sip billy tea, the numbers that seem to stretch to infinity of the dead, and the lost youth that was taken renders me speechless.

I am vehemently anti-war, but wonder whether my opinions were changed if all those around me took up arms to defend a cause, to defend the vague yet stirring notion of "the motherland", and to be willing to die for those causes. Perhaps I lack the courage to face death so squarely in the face, perhaps I lack the utmost conviction of knowing that something is right and right without question.

What I do know, is that as anti-war as I am today, tears spring into my eyes as I stand, with my head bowed for a minute's silence, after listening to the ANZAC Ode.

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