Been a long day. Up at 5:00am attended the dawn service at 6:00am, then home for breakfast. Leaving again at 10:00am for the ANZAC Day parade, forming up at 10:30am. The service after the parade went on and on and on. Our Standard Bearer (RAFA), well into his eighties, crumbled to the floor and I helped carry him off to the sidelines. The medics got him up and on to a chair. Checked later he's making a good recovery.
Afterwards our local RSL - Returned Services League (Oz equivalent to the Royal British Legion), laid on a free lunch and drinks for all parade participants. Sometimes when you get a thousand plus spectators applauding the marchers, it helps with the remembrance of those no longer with us. It was a good day to be a veteran.
We did remember.