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Speaker 1: In flanders Field. The poppies blow between the crosses row

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Speaker 1: on row that mark our place, and in the sky

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Speaker 1: the larks, still bravely singing fly scars, had emitted their guns.

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Speaker 2: Below.

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Speaker 3: We are the dead.

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Speaker 2: Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset, glow,

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Speaker 2: loved and were loved. And now we lie in flanders fields.

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Speaker 3: Take up our coal with the foe to you from

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Speaker 3: favoring hand. We throw the torch be yours to hold

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Speaker 3: it high. Is here break faith with us who die.

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Speaker 2: We shall not sleep. Low poppies grow in plans fields.

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Speaker 4: Hi, this is doctor Justin Coulson on a special Anzac

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Speaker 4: Day Happy Families episode Today. I wanted to share an

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Speaker 4: ANZAC message with you as we commemorate and remember the

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Speaker 4: lives that have been lost and the service that's been

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Speaker 4: given in service of the freedoms that we enjoy. Each year.

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Speaker 4: I struggle around Anzac Day as I try to comprehend

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Speaker 4: the horror of war. The shocking of events in Ukraine

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Speaker 4: have made it even more difficult to understand just how

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Speaker 4: awful war really is. It's made war all the more

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Speaker 4: real as we've watched via technology, the loss of homes,

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Speaker 4: the loss of families, the loss of life, and to me,

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Speaker 4: the loss of humanity that should exist in people's hearts

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Speaker 4: but has been replaced in far too many people with

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Speaker 4: a desire to hurt and maim and kill. It's been

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Speaker 4: devastating to watch. Each year as I've gotten older, the

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Speaker 4: concept of war and the pain and the loss that

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Speaker 4: it entails becomes harder and harder for me to fathom.

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Speaker 4: But each year I pause, and I recognize that we

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Speaker 4: need to think about war. That may sound provocative and

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Speaker 4: maybe even a bit confusing, but let me explain what

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Speaker 4: I mean. I believe that we need to talk with

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Speaker 4: our children about war. We need to feel that heartbreak,

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Speaker 4: that pain, unspeakable confusion about being in a world where

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Speaker 4: war occurs and freedom and peace are lost. We need

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Speaker 4: days like Anzac Day for reflection. We need pain to

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Speaker 4: exist in our hearts over the horrors of war and

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Speaker 4: the devastation that it reeks on the world. Some people

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Speaker 4: will say, well, I don't want to think about such

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Speaker 4: awful things. I don't want to go there, and I

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Speaker 4: get that I probably prefer not to as well, if

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Speaker 4: I'm perfectly honest about it. But and here's the provocative

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Speaker 4: thing that I want to say, I don't believe that

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Speaker 4: any of us, not one of us, has the license

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Speaker 4: to avoid thinking about what war has done and how

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Speaker 4: people have suffered as a result of dictators and despots

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Speaker 4: and greedy governments intent on grabbing power at any costs.

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Speaker 4: In fact, I believe that remembering and thinking about war

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Speaker 4: is among the things that we must think about regularly

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Speaker 4: if we're to take our freedom seriously and not for granted.

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Speaker 4: We should not avoid thinking about the price that so

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Speaker 4: many have paid for our peace and freedom. We should

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Speaker 4: not avoid thinking about the price that so many are

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Speaker 4: now paying because they live in places where peace and

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Speaker 4: freedom are now suddenly no longer available. We should not

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Speaker 4: avoid thinking about the lives that have been given, the

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Speaker 4: lives that have been lost. So that we can carelessly

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Speaker 4: go about our days. When we have some appreciation of

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Speaker 4: the sacrifice given, of what so many have done for us,

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Speaker 4: I think we live better. So may we always remember

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Speaker 4: those who died. May we always remember the price that

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Speaker 4: so many have paid for the peace and the freedom

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Speaker 4: that we our partners, our children, our families enjoy. And

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Speaker 4: may we teach these sacred things things to our children

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Speaker 4: so they can honor the freedoms that are ours and

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Speaker 4: that are theirs, this Anzac Dame, lest we forget