Iam totally speechless i just cant believe what i am seeing !

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Very sympathetic reporting. Sincere expressions of emotion all around; little boys, young soldiers, old men and self-serving ar$eholes. The events of the day made the papers, and whose opinion is right was left up to the reader. My attitude whenever I see their form of free speech is, 'You're welcome.'

In my lifetime, Remembrance Day has gone from a dawdling obligatory shambles that sort of resembled a military march, to a hugely popular public expression of emotion and respect. In the ten yrs I've been posted here, I've marched on the National War Memorial parade three or four times. This year I was the Guard WO for a 50-man (and woman) Army guard. Many of the guys hadn't done that parade before so I stepped them through the sequence of turns and eyes-rights. I also told them we were there as supporting cast (never mind there was probably 3 or 4 decades of overseas service amongst the men). One guy said afterwards it was the best parade he'd ever done. Just as it should be.