ANZAC DAY

On Anzac Day we remember and honour the service and sacrifice of those who have served our nation.

We do this for a number of reasons:

• to acknowledge those who have died in service to our nation

• to reflect on how that service and sacrifice has contributed to what and who we are as a nation today - that is, to understand its impact; and what our response should be to that legacy.
  

We are proud of the ANZAC legacy. We celebrate it and we identify with it. We talk about the ANZAC legacy as having four key characteristics that define Australia:

• mateship

• endurance

• courage, and

• sacrifice

Today the Anzac legacy serves three purposes:

• to call on us to thank those earlier generations for their sacrifice.

• to energise us in looking after our more recent veterans, and

• to inform us of what those earlier generations would expect of us today as we face our own generational test.

We remember on Anzac Day for a reason.

We are proud of our Anzac forebears, let us make them proud of us.

Lest We Forget.