The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News The Echo and The Sun. FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1931. ANZAC DAY REFLECTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 96, 24 April 1931, Page 8

The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News The Echo and The Sun.

FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1931. ANZAC DAY REFLECTIONS.

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Sixteen years have passed since the glorious failure of Gallipoli began. In the s waving years of the war events were so unprecedentedly terrific in their scope and tragic in their results that it seemed as if time itself was standing still or was delayed in its course, as if all life were wrenched, from its purpose and could never again be made straight. Time, however, is the greatest of healers; upon the most terrible of events he drops his anodyne. A generation has now grown up that remembers little or nothing of the war; there will be children present at to-morrow's ceremonies who were not born when the Australians and the New Zealanders and the 29th Division won a position on the lire-swept slopes of the Peninsula. It is well to reflect how much time has passed since "the great days ranged like tides, and left our dead on every shore." It would be utterly unreasonable to expect the younger generation to look upon the war with the eyes of the older, who either in reality or in imagination saw terrible things. But the younger generation may quite properly be instructed in the facts of these times, so that they may pay due honour to those who fought, .that they may draw inspiration from their self-sacrifice, and that, remembering -the toll levied by the greatest of wars, they may resolve to work unceasingly and in all possible ways for peace. This is part of the purpose of Anzac Day. It is a day of remembrance, of gratitude, and of resolution. We commemorate then more than the part of the New Zealand Army in the Gallipoli campaign. Not only do we remember the whole of the brotherhood in arms in that area, but our thoughts cover the whole of the war. The people of Auckland are fortunate in having as a central shrine for these remembrances a very noble monument of commemoration. There this annual tribute is paid in surroundings of beauty and high dignity, and there the thoughts of young and old should be moulded to the determination that these dead shall not have died in vain.