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Just home from march and service at Kenmore, where our grandkids marched with their school- Nbr 1 grandaughter wearing my father's medals with pride.
Interesting changes in format, Kenmore High School Captains were MCs for the service, about 2000 in attendance. Ranks of WW2 veterans now noticeably thinning and some frail.
This year my father would have turned 97, served AIF 1942-43 Kokoda - Buna & Salamoa, 1944-45 beach landings Aitape - Butt & Wewak - Dagua.
As the local RSL President summed it up, those who served and those who did not come home; would count their sacrifice worthwhile if we lived the other 364 days maintaining our national traditions, exercising our democartic freesdom, offering a fair go and caring for the those less fortunate.
Lest we forget.
David
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