Background:
As an ex-Army Reservist, and with family connections in the Army, Navy and Air Force, Anzac Day is significant to me personally so I always get emotional during the march and service. Warfare has such an incredibly traumatic impact on people’s lives, and we are touched by it directly or vicariously through current circumstances or by history.
While we commemorate the Anzacs on ANZAC day, it is a time we honour all of those, in all of the services who gave and currently give of themselves in ways, in which most people will never fully understand. Some continue to pay the price long after the duty has ended.
You are not forgotten. To you all, I am grateful, as it because of your contribution, that I can live life with freedom and choice, as can my fellow Australians and New Zealanders.
Lyrics:
Pipes, Drums and Intro
I hear the ANZACs marching
Way above the clouds
They gave up their freedom
So we could have ours
Many years have gone but
Their stories have lived on
How they fought and fell united
On those foreign shores
Chorus:
We don’t march
On these streets
To glorify war
We don’t march
For the Anzacs
To even any score
Today we march proudly
To remember them
And what they fought for
We march to honour them
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Lest We Forget
There are those who came later
To serve for love and land
They held united
Each woman and man
Along with the Anzacs
Their courage held true
Leaving a legacy
For me and you
Chorus:
We will march… x 4
Lest We Forget