ANZAC Day and the Family History That Lives Within It
Growing up in Australia, ANZAC Day was something you felt before you fully understood it. At school, we learnt about the ANZACs every year. Old soldiers paraded through town and gathered at the war memorial, and then, as old soldiers do, made their way to the RSL. As a child, you absorbed the solemnity of it without always grasping the weight behind it. It was only later, when I began researching family history, that ANZAC Day stopped being something I observed and became something I understood.
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