Anzac Day in New Zealand is held on 25 April each year to commemorate New Zealanders killed in war and to honour returned servicemen and women. The day has similar importance in Australia, New Zealand's partner in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli. The ceremony itself has been continually adapted to the times, but has also steadily acquired extra layers of symbolism and meaning.
Anzac day is also commemorated here in Hawai'i through a solemn ceremony at the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. Hundreds attend the ceremony, including the press, which televised the ceremony on the news yesterday.
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. - Laurence Binyon's 'For the
Fallen'
Aloha!
