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Speaker 1: I are now a Zac Day tomorrow, a moment for

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Speaker 1: us to all pause and remember. And joining me on

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Speaker 1: the line right now is Sam, who is a Dundee resident.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Sam, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Now Sam, I understand that you and others have crocheted

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Speaker 1: some poppies which are going to be used to make

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Speaker 1: a five meter long mat or is it more than

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Speaker 1: one mat?

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Speaker 2: It's more than one mate, Oh, tell me about this.

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Speaker 2: So these poppies were croached and knitted by thousands of

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Speaker 2: women around Australia, and I believe there are a few

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Speaker 2: and other places around the world that make contributions to

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Speaker 2: We began in twenty thirteen and all poppies were sent

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Speaker 2: to one place in Melbourne where they were all assembled

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Speaker 2: on to five meter long mats. And these mats after

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Speaker 2: how many years of collecting them in twenty eighteen, so

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Speaker 2: that's three years of collect him and making him into matts.

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Speaker 2: They were flown across to Europe and the UK and

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Speaker 2: they were installed in places of significance to Australia in Europe,

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Speaker 2: places like Delipoli Frommel's possiers. And then they also went

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Speaker 2: on a display at the Repatriation Hospital in the Chelsea

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Speaker 2: as part of a Chelsea Flower show in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 2: How incredible it is. It's absolutely incredible. And there were

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Speaker 2: a number of ladies at Dundee who croatia and knitted.

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Speaker 2: We just I just had a post bag and i'd

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Speaker 2: krosier throw it in the bag, and whenever I got

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Speaker 2: a full bag, I posted off and then I'll get

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Speaker 2: a new bag. And I don't know how many bags

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Speaker 2: I felt, but anyway, it all went down there. How beautiful.

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Speaker 1: How many do you have any idea? How many you crocheted? Sam?

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Speaker 2: None, I have no idea. I just kept crosering and yeah,

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Speaker 2: until I ran out of wall, and then I got

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Speaker 2: more wool. Well it was done. We didn't use pure

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Speaker 2: wool because it gets eaten up very easily by bugs. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: So I think there were about two hundred mats made.

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Speaker 2: I don't know exactly how many, and they were flown

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Speaker 2: to an airline YEP across to Europe and back again,

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Speaker 2: and then they were putting installations at the Canberra War

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Speaker 2: Memorial and other places around Australia, and then they were

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Speaker 2: put into storage and the people who organized it or said, well,

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Speaker 2: we're just going to send him out to the people

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Speaker 2: who made contributions and then thee got two mats. Oh

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Speaker 2: that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: So they're going to be on display, aren't they at

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Speaker 1: the Sand Palms.

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Speaker 2: At Sandpans Memorial. Yeah, from nine o'clock yep, tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 1: How lovely, So Sam Palms Memorial from nine o'clock tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 1: People are able to go out there and see these mats.

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Speaker 1: And by the sounds of it, you know, not only

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Speaker 1: have they traveled to all of those really very significant

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Speaker 1: and important locations, but this is truly a labor of

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Speaker 1: love and reflection.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's exactly what it is. And well we sort

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Speaker 2: of look at it now as a piece of history

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Speaker 2: and we've spread it around Australia now, so yeah, and

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Speaker 2: it's just our way of saying thank you to all

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Speaker 2: the people who sacrificed and are still sacrificing because they're

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Speaker 2: rich men and their moms are coping with sons and

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Speaker 2: grandmothers and grandparents are coping with grandchildren that have returned.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, and Sam, is your family do you have

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Speaker 1: you know, have you been in a situation where your

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Speaker 1: family have been members of the defense force, or do

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Speaker 1: you have any special sort of connection.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I had one great uncle, two great uncles

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Speaker 2: from different sides of my parents' background die over in

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Speaker 2: Europe and they're buried over there. Yeah. And I have

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Speaker 2: a family member who went to Vietnam and returned different,

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Speaker 2: and another family member who's gone to Afghanis Stand and

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Speaker 2: returned a little bit different as well. So yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: a really important thing to do. Love.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a really important thing to do. And so Sam,

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Speaker 1: you said as well, You're not the only wonderful woman

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Speaker 1: from Dundee that's been involved in this. Has there been

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Speaker 1: a few of you?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I think that about a dozen of them. I

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Speaker 2: can't name them all because you might have got someone.

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Speaker 2: It's terrible because you know, we all just sort of

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Speaker 2: did what I did it. It's like Crosier while we

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Speaker 2: watching the movie at nighttime Plunker. I'd do about ten

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Speaker 2: or fifteen or so and plunk them in the bag,

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Speaker 2: and when the post bag got full, we just posted off.

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Speaker 2: And as it turns out, there were the persons who

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Speaker 2: organized it down south stre about a dozen of us,

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Speaker 2: and so the Dundee Progress Association has got custody of

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Speaker 2: them and they just distribute them out to whoever's going

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Speaker 2: to have them on display, and this year it's the

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Speaker 2: Sampan's memorial.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful stuff. Hey Ef, Yeah, if you've got a photo,

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Speaker 1: would you be able to send one across to us

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Speaker 1: so Crystal and I can have a bit of a

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Speaker 1: look and we might be able to share it on

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Speaker 1: the socials so that our listeners can see it as well.

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Speaker 2: I can do that, legends that if you can put

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Speaker 2: me on hold, I'll get Christal's number.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Sam, thank you so much for having a chat

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Speaker 1: with us this morning. I think it's a really lovely

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Speaker 1: thing that you've done. And to you and everybody else involved, ye,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us and telling us about it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me on there anytime.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Sam, Thank you