Anzac Day

It is Anzac Day in Australia today.
A day when we remember our servicemen who fell at Anzac Cove during the war
Having never been down to the local service before,
I decided to have a walk down to the memorial,
just as everyone else was coming home again
it certainly looked like there was a goodly number of people who had attended
people were still gathered around
to have their own private moments of remembrance
They shall grow not old

As we that are left grow old

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn

At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them!

As I walked home afterwards I had this view out to Brookfield as I crossed the road
And I remembered again that there are many people gathered out there looking for a mother of three small children who went missing after her walk last week..
There were many police and SES searchers around when I drove out there to tennis. When the police came down to search the grounds around the tennis courts and the creek near the car park I was surprised we were allowed to be there still playing. Helicopters hovered overhead. The lady who went missing lived just over from the tennis center, and is a friend to many who come to play tennis there. I can still hear helicopters out there occasionally. And the local showgrounds has been set up as a search center for the police, and SES I presume.

May God go with all those who remember fallen comrades family and friends on Anzac Day,

May he also go with the searchers and the police and especially the family looking for Allison...may she be found very soon. A strange and disturbing happening too close to home.

postscript....ANZAC= Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.