Territorians young and old to commemorate the fallen this Remembrance Day
TERRITORIANS will stand and remember the fallen soldiers who gave their life to let the nation live on today, Remembrance Day.
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TERRITORIANS will stand and remember the fallen soldiers who gave their lives to let the nation live on today, Remembrance Day.
More than 100 years after Armistice Day, local Scouts will be among those keeping the tradition alive in Darwin.
North West Mobile Force Captain Brent Potter, who served in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan from 2012-2013, will attend the service at the Darwin Cenotaph.
Cpt Potter said Remembrance Day gave citizens the chance to stop and reflect on their own attitude and ensure they did so in the spirit of the Anzacs and Diggers.
“Everyone’s perception is different, for me it’s the ability to check myself against the Anzac spirit and what we did in the First World War,” he said.
“Comparing myself to those standards, they went off with this ill-conceived idea of what war was going to be, the great casualties and huge amount of social impact.
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“Remembrance Day is reflecting on the Anzac spirit, where we came together as a nation.
“I am proud to have served, but it’s nothing compared to what people before gave, they paid a greater price than what they would have known.”
Cpt Potter said while he thought schools did a good job in educating students about Australia’s military history, he tried to instil the Anzac spirit on his children and stepchildren.
“What I try to do is relay an understanding of sacrifice, they’re fortunate enough to be raised in a democracy, they have the right to vote by birth and citizenship, but someone gave everything so they could do that,” he said.
“While I don’t encourage it, if they want to sleep in on any day for example, they can do it because someone else couldn’t.”
Cpt Potter hopes to take his children to Melbourne’s Dawn Service in the coming years to show them more about the meaning of the Anzac spirit.
At 11 years of age, 1st Berrimah Scout Mathew Barber already understands why the country stops and remembers.
“It’s about remembering all those who died in war and all the people who have made sacrifices,” he said.
“We’re doing a special walk through (the Cenotaph) to acknowledge those people who have died.”
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Darwin RSL president Stephen Gloster said Darwin would stop and remember those who made the greatest sacrifice over 100 years ago at the Darwin Cenotaph today.
“It’s important to remember the number of lives that were lost, there were 60,000 killed in those four years (of World War 1),” he said.
“When you think the population was only 2 million, that’s equivalent now 600,000.”
Originally published as Territorians young and old to commemorate the fallen this Remembrance Day