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Alpha and Omega
Remembrance Day 11 November 2008, Canberra (D Clark)
The Stone of Remembrance at the Australian War Memorial, bedecked with floral tribute on a fine late Spring morning in Canberra, 90 years since the end of the The Great War, that War To End All Wars.
To the right, just beyond the parade ground, stands the distinctive shattered Doric column of the war memorial for Greece, first—or last—of the great avenue of memorials lining Anzac Parade. Far down the Avenue and across distant, barely glimpsed, Lake Burley Griffin lie Australia’s old and the new Parliament Houses, the long sweep of sites thus ordered with poignant significance.
That war is an evil is something that we all know and it would be pointless to go on cataloguing all the disadvantages involved in it. No one is forced into war by ignorance nor, if he thinks he will gain from it, is he kept out of it by fear. The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side is ready to face danger rather than accept an immediate loss.
History of the Peloponnesian War, IV. 4 (Thucydides 431 BC)
So let us end as we began—with thanks, with hope, and with remembrance.
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.”
For the Fallen (Laurence Binyon 1914)
Lest we forget.
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