‘The holiest thing our nation has‘, Canberra Times, 23 April 2013
Columnist’s meditation about the Anzac Day Dawn Service. She insists that politicians (who commit soldiers to war) should attend the Service and goes on
what the majority of those of us who go to Dawn Services want to do is to remember the dead and to honour the memory of what it takes to sacrifice your life for a cause you think much bigger than you are as an individual. But when we go to Dawn Services, we sometimes do the religious thing and deny ourselves the right to question, to truly think about what happened at Anzac Cove. Those young men took orders from people who had no idea what they were doing. It still makes me so angry. That’s my number one emotion about Anzac Day. Anger. No tears, just fury. Partly because I know it still happens, young men and women dying because of the decisions of those who are in charge.
We can’t bring ourselves to say no to anything Anzac. It’s the religion we have in this country with no religion.
