Day 150 - In Memory.

  We are in for an exciting month of travel in the Red Centre.  Raising funds for the Just 4 Kids charity and seeing some amazing countryside and playing in my favourite place of Oz - the Outback.   I thought it was very important to take time out.  To pay respect; to the five diggers that lost their lives in Afghanistan only two days again.  It was our darkest day since the Vietnam War.    Our hearts going out to their families, friends, and colleagues mourning their loss.  May they rest in peace.  Lest we Forget. 

Day 21 – Bush Dawn ANZAC DAY.

ANZAC DAY DAWN 2012

 Weathered hands hold an old photograph.  The edges are torn; faded, creased lines cover the diminishing image.  The good looking gentleman stares back in his uniform; pressed, clean, stands tall, proud, and ready.  Teardrops fall, the years have passed he is no more, yet the haunting eyes, his soul still peer from the photograph.  He didn’t even make it to the shore or set foot on Gallipoli.  His blood has long since washed away, in the water from the foreign land he volunteered to fight in, for a country he believed in, away from family, friends, and sweethearts.  He could have been your great grandfather, grandfather, uncle, husband or friend.  He sacrificed for us, for our lives in what he believed to be a wonderful country called Australia.  On this ANZAC day be proud of the fallen and their sacrifices.  Be proud of our Armed Services serving Australia today.  They are a long way from home, and their loved ones still wait with a photograph on the shelf, hoping and praying they come home.  Lest we Forget.