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Anzac Day will die without a new generation of marchers

Louise Markus

by Louise Markus

08 Mar 03:30pm

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Growing up in Sydney with a father who served in the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces (BCOF), Anzac Day was a special day.

Diggers need their families on Anzac Day. Picture: Dean Marzolla.

We would rise early, catch the bus into the city and wait for my father to march past with his mates. 

It was important to him that we understood the significance of Anzac Day so that we could carry on the tradition of remembering those who gave us the freedom we enjoy today.

Over recent years, the sight of a grandfather holding the hand of his grand son marching down George Street in Sydney or along Anzac Parade in Canberra has become an enduring image of the ongoing legacy of Anzac Day to this nation. 

The involvement of the next generation of Australians in these events is critical to the ongoing significance of Anzac Day in the hearts and minds of all Australians.

All veterans of all wars and conflicts, ex-service men and women, peacekeepers, current serving personnel and cadets, are recognised on Anzac Day in marches across Australia. 

Marching behind banners with medals proudly on display, and uniforms freshly pressed, we remember those people who made and make a unique contribution to Australian life.  It is about ensuring that the price so many young men and women paid is never, ever forgotten.

The resurgence of interest and participation in Anzac Day in recent years has been remarkable.  More and more people, including families, are rising early on Anzac Day to attend dawn services in local communities. 

Many of these people then return later in the morning to proudly wave our flag as the march goes past and share in the solemn, commemorative events at memorials and cenotaphs across the country.

These ceremonies take place in just about every town and city across Australia. 

The marches in our capital cities attract greater interest and attention, with many more veterans marching.  Months of preparation by local ex-service organisations takes place to ensure the dignity of the march and the support of the wider community.

2010 marks the 95th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing, and the 94th Anzac Day remembrance.  Sadly, our World War 1 veterans are no longer with us.  There are dwindling numbers of veterans from World War 2, the BCOF and the Korean War. 

By far the largest group marching in the future will be National Servicemen, Vietnam Veterans and peacekeepers from operations right around the globe and those recently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Anzac Day is the veterans’ day. Our veterans deserve to take pride of place in the march. The tradition of the Ode, the Last Post, the Reveille and the minutes’ silence only reinforces the central role that the veteran plays in the Anzac Day ceremony.  It is important that we teach this to the current and next generation who will become the custodians of the Anzac legend.

March organisers may want to maintain a dress code for those family members marching with a veteran; torn jeans and thongs is hardly a way to show respect for the service and sacrifice of others.  We see our veterans’ and ex-service men and women marching in suit-coat and, at the very least, with a collared shirt (often with a tie).  Many wear unit blazers and berets.  It would be entirely appropriate for march organisers to have a minimum dress code for families of veterans which upholds the dignity of the veterans who are also marching.

The future of Anzac Day lies squarely on the shoulders of the current and next generation of veterans and their families.  Unless we embrace the current and next generation, the importance of Anzac Day to the broader community may be lost. 

As we approach the centenary of the Gallipoli landing and the defining moments of battles on the Western Front during the Great War, let us not lose sight of the values which took our servicemen and women off to defend this nation.

The Anzac spirit certainly lives on in the next generation.  Let’s do all that we can to nurture it.

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    • formersnag says:

      03:39pm | 08/03/10

      I know of two men, living on the streets of Brisbane, right now, who both served in Gulf War #1 & East Timor? Aren’t there, also troops serving in Iraq & Afghanistan right now?

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    • Chewy says:

      04:41pm | 08/03/10

      Great point, who remembers the first Gulf war veterans?  While those who make sacrifaces for the nation should always be remembered the strong focus on Gallipoli can only be described as bizare when you look at it in the context it was an invasion and we lost. I find the annual piss up/ concert / littering at Gallipoli repugnant and quite frankly disrespectfull. Pleanty of other wars have been fought some even more just. Perhaps a hundred years from now young folk drapped in the flag will go piss up and party in the caves of Afghanistan.
      Perhaps I see all this different as my Grandfather chose to never march.I donknow…

    • Mark P. says:

      08:34am | 09/03/10

      Regardless of whether the war was right or wrong or whether it was just.  The underlying sentiment should always be to honour those who gave their lives, those who were willing to give their lives and those that supported these people in shaping the way of life we have today. Hindsight is 20/20 when we look from todays perspective, maybe we should respect the democratic right to choose.  Every year there seems to be a lot of furore surrounding the ANZAC march (should we celebrate war, should we celebrate invading another country, should we celebrate killing, should we let children march etc etc)  there never seems to be as much chatter surrounding the gay mardi gra which represents such a small portion of the community yet has strong attendance and massive cheering crowds!  Maybe the problem is that as our Grandfathers and Grandmothers are passing on and immigration is so strong, the current mix of Australians do not have any regard for the people who created this lucky country.

    • matt says:

      01:08pm | 09/03/10

      Thanks to the previous Government, of which Louise was a member, we’ve got plenty of new veterans to march.

    • John A Neve says:

      03:46pm | 08/03/10

      “Let us not lose sight of the values which took our service people off to defnd this nation”. 
      I would suggest we lost sight of those values many years ago. One wonders what an ANZAC would think of our society today?

      Anzac day is a day to reflect, it will never die in the minds of those that remember and most, if not all those children have no idea what ANZAC day is really about.

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    • Darren says:

      03:49pm | 08/03/10

      we will never run out of people to march as we will always have governments willing to lie to young men and have them go and fight and die for false causes

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    • People have choice now says:

      07:50am | 09/03/10

      @ Darren. Governments don’t “lie to young men” anymore & when they try, most Defence members see through it. I know because I have been in two wars in the last 3 years - voluntarily - and even though I knew Australia was involved primrily for political reasons ... that didn’t have to be my reason for going. People who join the military these days have a choice about whether or not to go to war. If people really don’t want to go to war, don’t join an organisation that does it. Oh, and I am a female.

    • dawborn says:

      04:14pm | 08/03/10

      Darren makes a valid comment;  human nature is unlikely to change much in the foreseeable future so wars will continue unfortunately.  As one of the older generation I am against children being part of the Anzac march ; only those who have served should be on parade and if the day comes when there are too few left then the format can be changed.

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    • Walter says:

      04:24pm | 08/03/10

      The Anzac Day march will die if people know they are going to have to stand by and watch hundreds of grandchildren in tracksuits who have never served their country in war.

      The best hope for the Day is to have the military march the regiment banners of wars past, followed by our present day diggers under the own banners.  This will return some solemnity to the occasion, as well as giving the public an opportunity to sincerly acknowledge those who have put their loves on the line for the rest of us.

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    • Steve of Cornubia says:

      08:09pm | 08/03/10

      Here, here. I think the real purpose of the Anzac Day marches is being forgotten.

    • old grumpy says:

      10:29am | 09/03/10

      As a Vietnam Veteran who doesn’t march I Could not agree more. Both my late father and my father-in-law veterans of North Africa Normandy, and Kokoda between them didn’t march either in recent years because of the hijacking of the day by scruffy kids with the ‘look at me I’m in a parade!’ attitude. Sadly this stems from a lack of understanding by their parents, many of my generation, who 40 years ago didn’t give a stuff if they weren’t involved in the Military, but now in the age of 30 second attention span get all nationalistic, and wave the flag for another baby boomer day out. Give Anzac Day back to the Returned of both past and present, and those who have served, and still are.

    • QueenMargot says:

      05:35pm | 09/03/10

      Excellent idea, Walter.

    • BTS says:

      04:29pm | 08/03/10

      One would have thought you would be more concerned with providing Veterans their entitlements instead of making them prove they were actually in the war (Vietnam Veterans have to prove they went to the war, even though they were conscripted); or providing them with the proper equipment instead of doing things on the cheap so that they come back alive.  War Veterans should have access to all services as an automatic right.  Imagine going to war, sometimes against your will, being poorly equipped and if you were fortunate enough to return are told you were never really there.  Those are the issues.

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    • Julia says:

      04:56pm | 08/03/10

      I’m with the RSL on this one. I think the old guys who are still alive need to be given the due recognition they deserve. It shouldn’t be watered down with kids and grandkids.

      If they want to honour their forebears, get the school band to march or scouts/guides to march separately but in the same parade.

      I also find it interesting that someone in Sydney feels that commenting on a Queensland RSL decision is appropriate.

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    • James Copeland says:

      10:15pm | 12/10/11

      What about the soldiers that never came home and have never marched?? Don’t you think they deserve some recognition and representation? Family members marching in their place is the best way of representing WWI and WWII units now that the veteran numbers are rapidly decreasing.  For your into I’m an Afghanistan Veteran, my father is a Vietnam Veteran and my Grandfather died on the Burma Railway as a prisoner of the Japanese.

    • Super D says:

      05:05pm | 08/03/10

      Anzac Day would still exist without a parade just as New Years Eve would exist without fireowrks.  Maybe it wouldn’t be so exciting.  Since when is remembering those who served the country supposed to be exciting?  Frankly relatives have no place in the parade unless they are assisting their elderly relatives. 

      The fact that the parade shrinks every year is a good sign.  Would we really want the parade to grow every year?  I can’t imagine anything more poignant than the last surviving digger marching with the whole street to him/herself.  I can’t see how having the street crowded with relatives of deceased veterans would add to the solemnity of the moment.

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    • OnlyVeterans says:

      07:54am | 12/05/10

      I agree, it makes it special, that old soldiers march, to remember those who did not return Lest we forget. Only service people deserve the recognition.

    • nic says:

      06:21pm | 08/03/10

      I wasn’t ‘there’ and didn’t fight. Just because my forebears did doesn’t give me the right to march. We should remember in other ways. Don’t turn Anzac Day into a farce, it’s not kiddies day.

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    • mark says:

      07:23pm | 08/03/10

      Walter you are so right.
      One cannot be a soldier by-proxy.
      What about the ones who lost their lives and never had a chance to have children or granchildren.?
      We will always remember them - march or no march.

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    • Rachel De Luca says:

      07:27am | 09/03/10

      Sorry Louise, what exactly do you mean by they gave us the “freedom that we enjoy today”? 

      Let’s assume for a second that you’re talking about the ANZACs (not the veterans).  Surely, you’re claiming that had we not sent our troops following the orders of the British to invade another country (who were trying to enjoy the basic freedom of sovereignity) then we wouldn’t have had the freedoms that we had today?

      ANZAC Day is about remembering those who lost their lives for their country in the name of conflict.  This sentence, in its entirety, is significant. 

      But they did not go there to give us our freedoms.

      They went there to invade a country under the efforts of Western imperialism.  Surely that’s not a value you want to be teaching today’s children, Louise?

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    • JJJ says:

      08:02am | 09/03/10

      Oh, please Rachel. As if the young lads (later dubbed ANZACs) that were shipped off overseas were thinking about expanding Western Imperialism. That’s a ridiculous sentiment to suggest we focus on. Sure, discuss it in general terms when educating youth today about war, however I would rather we remember the ANZACs in the romantic and optimistic fashion that we do and leave the cynicism at the door. Most ANZACs had little choice than to leave their families and face death in their teens and were doing it for honour. THAT is something I would like children today to have more of!

    • iansand says:

      08:15am | 09/03/10

      It will be a great day when there are no veterans alive to march.  That will mean that peace has broken out for a few generations.

      The march should be reserved for serving members of the forces and veterans.

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    • AFR says:

      08:37am | 09/03/10

      Perhaps if they actually xdressed up a little. I tend to cringe every year as the real vets march with pride in blazers/suits etc, and they walk next to some guy in trackie daks.

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    • Mick says:

      09:07am | 09/03/10

      My father fought in Vietnam for the RAN and my grandfather fought in New Guinea in a light tank, my great-grandfather served on the western front in WWI.

      I can tell you now, I will NEVER wear their medals and march on ANZAC Day. Why? I didnt bloody earn the right to wear them. I wasn’t packed off to some foreign country to duck and weave enemy fire.

      The ONLY people who have the right to march are former and current members of our military.

      ANZAC day is a day to say thank you to living members and former members of the ADF, and to also reflect on the men and women that did not come home and are buried in foreign lands around the world.

      Let direct descendants march at the rear, but let the bloody diggers have ONE day without everyone sticking their nose in.

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    • J says:

      11:37am | 09/03/10

      Mick. Do you really think that members of the ADF have a right to march over families? What about the pen-pushers who have never been to war?

      And don’t you think that some diggers might actually want to have their families march with them? I have served o/s twice & while I’m not an old-fella, I would like to march with family. Clearly my 5 year-old has not done war-time as yet…

    • OldGirl says:

      09:55am | 09/03/10

      My Grandfather fought in the first World war, my dad was in New Guinea and Darwin when it was bombed. Both of them are dead now but I don’t feel I have the right to march. It’s a day for veterans I go to the Anzac march and I must admit I cry. I look at these brave old soldiers and feel so grateful to them. Without them we might not have the same Australia we have now. If relatives want to march when these old diggers are gone, that’s fine with me. Many of the relatives were not even born when these wars were fought including myself. Let these old diggers have their day they earned it

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    • marley says:

      11:25am | 09/03/10

      Being a Canadian, I can only compare the Anzac Day celebrations with the much-less hyped Remembrance Day celebrations back home.  Marching in the latter is reserved for active servicemen and for veterans, and occasionally for cadet units. Period.  Family and descendents do not wear medals they didn’t earn or march in parades representing forces in which they never served.  And yet Remembrance day ceremonies in Canada most definitely are not dying - there are, sadly, plenty of newer veterans of various peacekeeping missions, and there is also a real awareness of sacrifices made in previous generations among the descendents and heirs of those of soldiers and sailors.  I see no reason why Anzac Day should be any more likely to falter if the parades were restricted to servicemen and veterans than is the case with Remembrance Day.

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    • Jacky A says:

      11:44am | 09/03/10

      How can you get unanimity with so many calling for the abolition of sons and daughters marching alongside their Grandfathers, bedecked with medals from bygone Wars ? The RSL should be doing more sensible things, like fighting the Dept Veteran Affairs for justice for bonfide Vets who suffer PTSD, war nureosis, and old combat wounds, instead of putting imbecilic regulations to show their puny dinosauric strength - no wonder they are the laughing stock of the Community.
      I gave up marching 3 years ago, when the guy next to me wore a Special Forces baret, and chest full of medals he evidently bought from a souvenier cash-an-carry shop. He was later found out, by a group of Vietnam Vets, who pursue these clowns who seek two minute glory ? Then there is this silly practice of Vets wearing their fathers medals from the Boer War on the right side, as if to boast he’s earned more than me ? The Govt, ADF, not the RSL, should dictate who should march, and the formality of the occassion. The thing that bugs me most is the desecration of our Flag.
      In the RAAF, we saluted the Flag sunup, and it was prohibited to allow the Flag to touch the ground whilst folding it neatly at sundown. We draped the Flag over the coffins reverently, as a symbolic gesture of farewell to our fallen mate. Now, they wear it on their backsides, footware, and ridiculas head ware and Chowtaw blanket, as a symbol of macho Ozzieness - oui, oui, oui. In the USA, you can get life for burning the Stars-n-stripes. No where in the wide World, do Govts allow the desecration of their National Flag, except here. Amusingly, most of the Flags draped around these freaks are made in China, because we haven’t the where-with-all to manufacture a National treasure. The last laugh is on us. Soon, they will be making Babies napkins, and tampons, and frangers with our National flag logo, so that every time you go luvy-duvy, you are doing your Patriotic duty in the name of Australia. Oui. oui. oui.

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    • Willy K says:

      03:04pm | 09/03/10

      A blood relative of a war veteran should be allowed to march as long as:

      They are of 18 years and over. 
      They wear a suit and tie (and female equivalent)
      They display the medals

      This would mean massive ANZAC day marches again and renewed interest in ANZAC history.

      The marching honour could be shared amongst family members and it would be a real sense of pride and create MUCH NEEDED tradition in Australia.

      It must be very classy and respectful but it must be done so that it never dies.

      An old Digger.

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    • Henry says:

      03:06pm | 09/03/10

      Marchers must be over 18.  No kids.  And only ONE marcher for ONE digger.

      There has to be respect shown.  Young kids that don’t have a clue and are just there for a parent ego trip/show off is totally wrong and is not popular amongst diggers.

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    • Keith Hammersmith says:

      03:22pm | 09/03/10

      Families of veterans who served, fight wars in a different but equally important way in my opinion.  You tell me that a wife or a child who has their Husband or Father away at war for a long period of time has not suffered for his/her country.  They have the right to March proudly, and people’s ego’s should not get in the way of that.

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    • old grumpy says:

      04:22pm | 09/03/10

      No they do not have the right to march!! Keith what is so hard to understand that the march is for “returned” servicemen & women from ACTIVE duty overseas. Read the above post from Marley, this is how it is in the United Kingdom, U.S.A, and Canada,Nobody is ‘entitled’ to wear medals they haven’t earnt. Read my above post, Old Grumpy. After what I went through, and the way I’ve been treated, I choose not to march, and no way would any of my kids or grandkids be pinning my medals on for all to see. War is Hell!!  Anzac Day is not meant to be the carnival it is turning into, and Please, stop using the term march, all the ‘civilians do is amble down George street like Browns cows.

    • Keith Hammersmith says:

      07:02pm | 09/03/10

      you ask any returned serviceman,  one who has returned from combat, and ask him “did your wife and kids at home give you strength as they stood by you, worried the nights away, waiting for you?”
      I think you will find the answer is yes, so families serve in wars as well.
      Ever waved to your dad as he goes to an active combat zone, tell me that child does not suffer, or the wife. 

      I never mentioned wearing medals that someone else has earned. 
      This is only about ego’s, I have heard from a lot of people with opinions, but the real combat veterans of this country I have spoken to, the overwhelming majority of them love their familes and are proud to march/walk with them in a respectful manner. Who is any government to tell them they can not.

    • Spot on says:

      09:51am | 10/03/10

      I’m with you, Keith. As an ex-serving, you know that those you leave behind (who are proud of you!) are doing it harder, in some ways, than you are! Having them march with you shows that they respect and value what their loved-ones have done. Some people have said that children don’t understand or respect what ANZAC Day is about, but I disagree.

    • Nicki says:

      07:20pm | 09/03/10

      Don’t worry America will start another war , so there will be plenty of new veterans to march.

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    • Dave says:

      12:25am | 10/03/10

      Its a tough one isn’t it?

      I agree that ANZAC Day should not ever be a ‘carnival’ or celebration, ever. It is and forever will be a Commemoration. It saddens me to see that despite the benefits of a modern education supposedly intelligent people still can’t get it through their thick heads - ITS NOT A CELEBRATION. No one is celebrating murder, killing, victory, triumph of arms, who has more medals etc.

      I always make a special effort to get down to the local Dawn Service, listen to the words of the speakers, watch the local march and have a few beers with the blokes afterwards before heading off home. As I get older I seem to get home earlier and earlier. I’ve grown to like watching a re-run or taping of the ABC televised march with my kids answering their questions. While I am watching those old Diggers march by I’m thinking about all those blokes who aren’t there to march for everyone to cheer and clap for, who won’t be there to have a cold beer.

      To be honest, I don’t mind seeing the kids march. My kids march under their school banner at the tail end of the march after all the veterans (local march). They love it. I only give them a Poppy and a Legacy badge to wear. I have never ever been able to get them to sit still for more than 5 minutes but they can sit there absolutely silent for 45 minutes during the service after the march with rapt attention and I am glad they are learning something. And you can’t ask for a better audience to learn from and it hands down beats trying to learn it from a book.

      I do however have a problem with adults marching wearing their relatives medals. They aren’t yours. Hang them on the wall next to a portrait or donate them to the AWM. I just never saw it as ‘honouring’ your relative…just a ‘Look at Me’ opportunity. Call me harsh but that’s the way I see it.

      I must be going to the wrong marches and Dawn Services because I don’t think I have ever seen some Southern Cross tattooed moron wearing an Aussie flag and screaming Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi! at any ANZAC Day ceremony, march or RSL. To be honest, they’d probably get flogged, and rightly so. I think its more of a media beatup and more likely a beat up by those using the safety of posting anonymously on the internet to grind their anti-military, anti-ADF axe.

      Politicians send our servicemen and women off to war. They get their grinning mugs in the papers shaking hands with some young Digger as they are about to head off to one of the most horrific and frightening experiences in human existence. They’ve forgotten all about that young digger 3 poofteenths of a second after that camera goes click. They’ll then deny that Digger ever existed once they return home and fight tooth and nail, spending millions of our tax dollars to fight every single legitimate claim for compensation that Digger and his mates put in for to help them get their destroyed lives back together.

      Politicians get remembered in the history books for sending people to war, people who never served get to re-write the history books with decades of hindsight and personal prejudice, civilians move on and get on with their lives as if nothing has changed, corporations try to make money or sell a few hamburgers off the day and the images of the diggers, the media trots out the same tired old platitudes and newsreel footage and come April 26th, 24 measly hours later the old Digger is forgotten. Thats the real tragedy.

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    • MarianK says:

      03:36pm | 08/04/10

      ‘The resurgence of interest and participation in Anzac Day in recent years has been remarkable.’

      Not when you consider the massive and vastly one-side coverage it’s been getting in recent years - especially the heavily subsidised Anzac school ‘curriculum’.

      As for kids marching in the parade, I find this a distasteful brainwashing of young minds - conditioning them early on to believe that if you fight in a war you’re a somebody and if you die in a war you’re a saint.

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    • Armyvet says:

      11:45pm | 12/04/10

      Anyone other than a veteran marching is wrong!  MarianK I agree with only one thing you said and that is no kids marching or non veteran period!  The reason is not due to your pathetic and unfounded belief of brainwashing but respect to the men and women who have fought and are there to show their respect and rememberance to their commrades who have fallen.  It’s people like you that make my memories of ANZAC Day distateful!!!

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