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Anzac memories

On Anzac day - 25 of April my mum and dad and I normally wake up very early and drive into town. We find a parking space and walk to the cenotaph at dawn. It's normally really cold so I make sure to wear my woolies. We find a space to stand and watch all the war veterans walking down the street. There is also a brass band that walks down as well,they were red and black uniforms. We also listen to all the speeches and sometimes planes fly over and soldiers do a gun fire.

After the dawn ceremony we meet up with my grandparents and go out for breakfast to Joe's garage. I’ve done this almost every year. One year we laid our poppy badges on the cenotaph. I remember when we came into Joe’s garage they were handing out Anzac biscuits one year.  

But this year it was different but interesting. We painted poppies onto rocks a few days before 25 of April. I painted all my rocks with a white background and each of them had one or two poppies on them with the letters LWF meaning lest we forget.

On Anzac day we woke up at 5.30am in the morning to go down to the letter box and play the last post. We saw our neighbours out on the street as well. After we stood at our driveway we walked down to Matekai park to place our painted rocks around the park.

We went for a walk a few days later through matekai park and only saw four in their spots where we had left them. You can see that these are the rocks that we painted. My ones are next to the two black ones.