ANZAC DAY
By FLORA SOAR, Seacliffe Road. Oneliunga, 5.E.5. Age 12 years.
In three more days we will be turning back the pages and commemorating again tho deeds of our brave men. We will gather to pay homage to them, and by this serrice once again feel fitted to bo better people. On our way to the cenotaph last year, I met a lady I knew, and asked her if she was going to the service. She said, " No, I am going to play tennis. Anzac Day is nothing to me, I had no one at the War." Last year at tho cenotaph I was hidden among all tho tall people, and a lady pushed me right to the front beside her three children. Her son had his father's medals pinned on his coat. When the soldiers halted for the service a few of them had children with them, and the little girl next to me said, " Mothor, if daddy hadn't gone to heaven could Georgo have marched in there with him?" I have never seen anything more beautiful than the changing of the guard of honour by the Legion of Frontiersmen, and the unfurling of the flags at tho cenotaph. 1 think Anzac Day is a day everyone should honour and respect, and give up their pleasure so that the day may be set apart for memories of tho dead..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21473, 22 April 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)
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231ANZAC DAY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21473, 22 April 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)
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