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VE NEWS EDITION 50, MAY 2014
ANZAC DAY 2014
Gordonvale ANZAC Commemoration Services By Carl Green At first light Gordonvale gathered at the Cenotaph to watch the sun come up and remember those who has stood in the light and faced the foe to protect their way of life. The young, and not so young, stood together and prayed with Chaplain Ian Lindsay RAN that we would never have to pay the ultimate sacrifice and that those that had would be forever in our hearts. Later in the day, serving and past serving members marched with the community to the Cenotaph. Mr Dennis Quick as Reviewing Officer, took the salute with RSL Sub Branch President, Mr Frank Miotto. Dennis served two tours of Vietnam; the first as a mine warfare and explosives engineer with the 1st Field Squadron (he assures me he still has all his fingers) and the second with the most decorated of all military units in Australian History, the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam. In his speech Dennis said, “the VALUES of ANZAC flow through us all. They are a defining element that makes us what we are as Australians.” He went on to speak of his time in Vietnam; “The values of ANZAC are defined as selfless individual and community responses to a need of critical proportion to support others in need.” He spoke of the selflessness of the injured who, when space was limited on a medivac chopper, all wanted to make sure that their mates went first. In closing his speech he looked at how today we can display those values, “The values of ANZAC manifest in many ways and not only in the grand gesture; they can manifest in a kind word to another who is suffering; a kindly intervention when another is under duress; a guiding hand when another strays and, most importantly, tolerance of others who may be different in one way or another. These are all aspects of what are the values of ANZAC.” “These values of ANZAC are an attribute that we all need to take and utilise positively each and every day of our lives, for with it we are a strong, vibrant and committed community. Without it, we are essentially empty. The values of ANZAC are the Legacy that has been passed from generation to generation over the past century.”
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He left the audience with a challenge: “Now the challenge is to you, the people of Gordonvale, whether you are 77 or 7 YOUR challenge is to be an integral part of the values of ANZAC into the future and to promote those values in others around you so that the young men listed on OUR CENOTAPH and others like them did not die in vain.”
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