Dubbo Photo News 23.04.2020

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APRIL 23-29, 2020 | LOCALLY OWNED & INDEPENDENT | FREE

In 2020, more than ever...

LEST WE FORGET By JOHN RYAN EVERY year we honour the sacrifices made by those who’ve served our nation. This year, right around Australia, we’re seeing all those former and current servicemen and women making another sacrifice – not being able to attend ANZAC Day ceremonies, a day which for most of them, is above all others. Dubbo Photo News assembled a group of veterans last weekend for a socially-distanced photo shoot at the Cenotaph, and this edition of the newspaper is packed full of stories honouring our diggers. We’ve done this because we know people in Dubbo, Wellington, Narromine, Gilgandra and all the western towns deeply value the sacrifices so many have made on our behalf. And we wanted the diggers to know that. We want anyone who’s ever served in Australia’s armed forces to pick up this edition of Dubbo Photo News and think, “Well, we can’t attend a physical commemorative service, but what a great comfort it is to see glimpses of our story told through the eyes of so many locals who’ve done their part.” We want locals who haven’t served to be so inspired by these stories that they walk to their letterboxes just before dawn on April 25, and spend a few minutes thinking about those lonely hours before dawn, in far off battlefields, where frightened men and women hungered for letters from home to remind them of what they were fighting for. We want people to really think about the words “Lest we Forget” rather than just letting them slip off their tongues, and imagine themselves in the boots of so many who never returned to our shores. We want this to be the most solemn and real ANZAC Day Dubbo’s ever experienced. The challenge to truly think about what the ANZAC spirit really means is greater in 2020 than it has been in the past 100 or so years since the legend was born on the shores of Gallipoli. Now is the time to rise to the occasion while the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the very freedoms our veterans have fought for. Dubbo has not forgotten those sacrifices. Lest we Forget. (Dubbo Photo News would like to thank Dubbo RSL Sub-Branch president Tom Gray and the other veterans for all the assistance they gave us in putting this edition of the newspaper together.) PHOTO: DUBBO PHOTO NEWS/WENDY MERRICK

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