Anzac Day

Today we woke up at 2:45 in the morning to go to the Australian War Memorial  in Villers-Bretonneux for the Anzac Day dawn service. We had to drive there because it was a long trip. When we were parking the people who car was in front had to help us to get our car in a car spot. Then we had to get out of the car and started to walk to get to the place it was at.

When we were walking in a girl was giving special books to people, it was called the Order of Service.

 

We found a spot pretty close to the front and tried to dry the seats which were wet with tissues. Then we got asked to move right near the front so we got a really good position. There we some girls and some boys from high schools who were reading out the the names of some of the soldiers who had died in the war. They were wearing their school uniforms.

I was reading the Order of Service and found a page with a letter from a soldier in the war to his daughter Daisy. On the next page there was a letter from Daisy to her Daddy. We found during the service that the Dad had died from a wound on the 4th of September a few days after he wrote the letter. I felt very sad because Daisy never got to see her Daddy again.

Later that day I lit a candle for Daisy in Amiens Cathedral because I was very sad.

At the end of the service there was a line of people who had a relatives in the war. Most of the things that the people gave to their grandpa or dad was poppies and other flowers. Most of the people gave them poppies.

I learnt a lot, got sad a lot, but had a great day. I rate it 10 / 10.