In honour of ANZAC Day, today’s newsletter will be a special edition. Today, we, alongside many other Australians, will be attending our local Dawn Services to commemorate the Australian men and women who sacrificed their lives for each and every one of us. We know that for some of our members, attending a Dawn Service may not be possible, so we wanted to bring a Dawn Service newsletter to you today.
To each of you who has ever fought for this country or has suffered as a result of war, we just want to say: We know a thank you will never be enough, but thank you for the sacrifices you have made so that we and our generations could be here today. You will never be forgotten. If you wish to share with the rest of our beautiful Seniors Discount Club community, we would love to hear your stories and what ANZAC Day means to you here. A few years ago, we had so many members share what ANZAC Day meant to them, and it was a beautiful thread to read. If you want to see what our members said about ANZAC Day in 2022, you can do so here.
We will start today’s newsletter with an adapted version of the ANZAC Requiem, thanks to the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee. Followed by an extremely special ANZAC Day Poem sent in by one of our very own members Dennis Ringrose, Ex Sherwood Foresters & Royal Warwickshire Regiments, back in 2022! This will be followed by The Ode of Remembrance and, finally, The Last Post.
Today is such an important day in Australian history, and we wanted to make sure that today’s newsletter wasn’t just like every other day’s newsletter. We wanted to make it special. Of course, this is not the end of today’s newsletter. We have plenty in store for your newsletter Dawn Service below, but out of respect to the Australian men and women who died or suffered in the great tragedy of war, we will end the introduction of this newsletter with Lest We Forget.
