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Sandy's storyThis short piece of writing is for my dad to show him another way how I love him. Thanks Dad! 'ANZAC Day' The bugle sounding the Last Post is playing as everyone stands to the minute silence. The day is 25th of April, a public holiday for all. Some use the day off to go to the beach, or just laze around, but thousands spend it like my family and I. My dad served in three wars, Korea, Malaysia and Vietnam. I love to stand there watching my dad march past amongst all the other ex-servicemen. I get a real sense of pride pointing him out, and saying "that's my dad", and with his long hair and white beard it isn't hard to find him. To some Anzac Day is to glorify war, but to me it shows the world it wasn't necessary but we can't forget the supreme sacrifice some men paid while fighting for what they believed in. War isn't right, they might have been avoided, but they weren't all wrong. How do you tell the soldiers who went away to preserve your country they weren't doing the right thing. If they hadn't done it, you mightn't be alive today. War isn't something that can be brushed under the mat like many tried to do with the Vietnam War. Most soldiers didn't have a choice, they were told to go, and when they got back no-one really anted to know about the war. No wonder some went insane after all they had witnessed and done, then being told it was wrong and for nothing. Every Anzac Day, my family and I attend the ceremony. We watch my father walk past, watch the laying of the wreath, the Last Post and listening to the speeches and hymns. During the minute silence, I think of all the people that died, the wives of the soldiers and the many kids that grew up without fathers. I think of all the countries overseas still involved in wars. I also think about what would happen if there was World War three. Many, many people would suffer from someone else's foolishness and what for ? World destruction? If the next generation believes in peace this should never happen. Lest We Forget. Sandy |
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