Ah! I'm having withdrawal symptoms. So i thought I'd actually post a short entry for a change.
*goes to find comforting ANZAC biscuit*
okay
question: Does anyway know where to find posts made by people who attended the Friday Night Project with David and Freema? Posts about the FNP that is. I haven't come across a single one.
Speaking of DW-type stuff, the hymn that is sung at the end of Gridlock has been sung all over Australia and New Zealand today... because it's ANZAC day. ohhh yeeaaah- check out those segue skills haha. But seriously, 'Abide With Me' really is an ANZAC tradition- I read it in an article.
The ANZAC Dawn Services were beautiful. This year was the first time they held a Dawn Service at Villers-Bretonneux methinks. There's something so touching about memorial services bringing people from distant places together [with visits to France and Turkey (Gallipoli)]. Particularly in Gallipoli where countries that were once pitching bombs and war cries at each other now stand together in reflective silence.
“Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives ... you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.
There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours ...
You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace.
After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.”
Ataturk (the founder and first President of the Turkish Republic), 1934