Australia

From the pride of a youthful member of the Junior Red Cross, attending our own service at Government House, to the twenty-something rebellion against the "glorification" of war, to the poignancy of seeing my father's generation of WWII vets age and gradually diminish in numbers, until now there are only a handful left.

It means more to me now than it ever did before, yet still there is always in my mind now the message of the play and film "Oh, What A Lovely War", which more than anything reminds us of the sheer waste and horror of war.

We never have learned.

Lest We Forget