Our son, Johnny, is attending Teachers College training to be a Primary School teacher. He is currently on section at Kirwee. On Anzac Day we travelled to Kirwee to attend their 2nd annual Anzac Day service.
It’s easy for us townies to take our surrounding districts for granted. Here was a local community remembering their long-forgotten dead. In WW1 53 young men around Kirwee died. Even more in WW2. That’s a lot of people from a small district.
At this celebration there were scouts, brownies, volunteer fire fighters, serving solders, school staff, farmers, local government reps, residents all stopping to remember.
The mayor, Lydia Gliddon, spoke eloquently about the “thread” of society between those who have gone before to those who will follow us. A young councillor, Samuel Wilshire, spoke movingly about “the old men who cause wars”. A comment which hit home to me.
We all then went into the local hall to eat sausage rolls, sandwiches and Anzac biscuits.
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