Get up early, Go to the Dawn Service. Think of the diggers and what they were doing all those years ago. Try not to let people see the tears in my eyes.
Stroll down to the Vietnam Vets Service at the other end of Kings Park. Be there for a good mate.
Go out for breakfast.
Go home have a snooze.
Watch the Bombers v Magpies.
Then off to the Len Hall Memorial Game Dockers V Sydney
Anzac day took on a new meaning for me after I read the book "Goodbye Cobber and Godbless" by John Hamilton.
It is a must read for anyone interested in the true events of what transcribed on 7th August 1915. It covers the events leading up to and including the fatal charge of the 8th and 10th Light Brigade at the Nek in Gallipoli.
"With that regiment went the flower of the youth of Western Australia, sons of old pioneering families, youngsters - in some cases 2 or 3 from the same home who had flocked to Perth at the outbreak of war with their own horse and saddlery in order to secure enlistment in a mounted regiment of the AIF. Men known and popular, the best loved leaders in sport and work in the west, then rushed straight to there death."
The book also clears up the confucion over who gave the infamous order to "Push on" as was made famous by the Australian movie Gallipoli. It was in actrual fact an Australian Colonel name Antill.
