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Speaker 1: In flanders Field, the poppies blow between the crosses, wrote

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Speaker 1: On wrote 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 we are the dead. Short days ago we lived,

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Speaker 2: felt dawn, saw sunset, glow, loved and were loved. And

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Speaker 2: 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.

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Speaker 1: 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 Public holiday, Long Weekend, Happy Families episode. Today, I

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Speaker 4: wanted to share an Anzac message with you as we

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Speaker 4: commemorate and remember the lives that have been lost and

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Speaker 4: the service that's been given in service of the freedoms

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Speaker 4: that we enjoy. Each year, I struggle around Anzac Day

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Speaker 4: as I try to comprehend the horror of war. The

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Speaker 4: shocking events this year in Ukraine have made it even

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Speaker 4: more difficult to understand just how awful war really is.

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Speaker 4: It's made war all the more real as we've watched

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Speaker 4: via technology the loss of homes, the loss of families,

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

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Speaker 4: humanity that should exist in people's hearts but has been

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Speaker 4: replaced in far too many people with a desire to

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Speaker 4: hurt and maim and kill. It's been devastating to watch.

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Speaker 4: Each year as I've gotten older, the concept of war

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Speaker 4: and the pain and the loss that it entails becomes

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Speaker 4: harder and harder for me to fathom. But each year

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Speaker 4: I pause, and I recognize that we need to think

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Speaker 4: about war. That may sound provocative and maybe even a

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Speaker 4: bit confusing, but let me explain what I mean. I

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Speaker 4: believe that we need to talk with our children about war.

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Speaker 4: We need to feel that heartbreak, that pain, that unspeakable

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Speaker 4: confusion about being in a world where war occurs and

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Speaker 4: freedom and peace are lost. We need days like Anzac

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Speaker 4: Day for reflection. We need pain to exist in our

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Speaker 4: hearts over the horrors of war and the devastation that

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Speaker 4: it reeks on the world. Some people will say, well,

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Speaker 4: I don't want to think about such awful things. I

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Speaker 4: don't want to go there, and I get that I

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Speaker 4: probably prefer not to as well, if I'm perfectly honest

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Speaker 4: about it. But and here's the provocative thing that I

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Speaker 4: want to say. I don't believe that any of us,

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Speaker 4: not one of us, has the license to avoid thinking

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Speaker 4: about what war has done and how people have suffered

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Speaker 4: as a result of dictators and despots and greedy governments

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Speaker 4: intent on grabbing power at any costs. In fact, I

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Speaker 4: believe that remembering and thinking about war is among the

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Speaker 4: things that we must think about regularly if we're to

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Speaker 4: take our freedom seriously and not for granted. We should

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

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Speaker 4: paid for our peace and freedom. We should not avoid

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Speaker 4: thinking about the price that so many are now paying

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Speaker 4: because they live in places where peace and freedom are

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Speaker 4: now suddenly no longer available. We should not avoid thinking

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

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

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Speaker 4: our days. When we have some appreciation of the sacrifice given,

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Speaker 4: of what so many have done for us, I think

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Speaker 4: we live better. So May we always remember those who died.

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Speaker 4: May we always remember the price that so many have

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Speaker 4: paid for the peace and the freedom that we, our partners,

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Speaker 4: our children, our families enjoy. May we teach these sacred

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Speaker 4: things to our children so they can honor the freedoms

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Speaker 4: that are ours and that are theirs, this Anzac Dame,

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Speaker 4: lest we forget