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Thousands gather for dawn services
Thousands have gathered to commemorate the contribution of Australian defence personnel at Anzac Day dawn services across the country, AAP reports
Every Anzac Day, from the greatest memorial to the simplest cenotaph, we honour all who have served in our name and all who serve today.
It is a collective act of remembrance, reflection and gratitude – one carried out by multiple generations of Australians and devoted to multiple generations.
As we gather here, in towns and suburbs across the country, and in former battlefields across the world, we are surrounded by their names and the places that made their final claim on them, laid out in an atlas of grief.
If we are to truly honour our veterans, we owe them something more than just gratitude. Just as they stepped for us, we must step up for them.
Let us therefore dedicate ourselves to taking up the burdens of the fallen and, with the same high courage and steadfastness with which they went into battle.
We gather today not to glorify war, but to remember ourselves, that we value who we are and the freedoms we possess.
The values for which we stand are more enduring than any conflict, as long as we have – like our forebears – the courage and commitment to defend them always.
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