00:00The guns fell silent on this day over a century ago. Today, the nation fell silent at the
00:08eleventh hour. On the first Remembrance Day in 1919, the war to end all wars was being
00:19marked, the Governor-General acknowledging that day.
00:22For them, the loss of war was a present sorrow. Grieving the dead, offering prayers for the
00:29missing, tending to the wounded in body and spirit.
00:35And all the Remembrance Days, the conflicts and the service since.
00:39The Australian Defence Force is a modern force, upholding the greatest of Australian values,
00:45continuing the legacy of the service of generations past and demonstrating the very best of our
00:52nation.
00:53At first light, Sydney's most famous icon was illuminated with the symbol of Remembrance.
00:58That service remembering those who fought and died at dawn.
01:01We are the dead. Short days ago, we lived, felt dawn, saw sunsets glow. Loved and were
01:09loved. And now we lie in Flanders Fields.
01:12As the pipes echoed through the ceremony in Brisbane's Anzac Square, the echo of the First
01:17World War was still being heard by families present.
01:22We had five of our uncles, great-uncles and great-grandfathers who served. Two that we
01:29know of that died on the Western Front. Both are unknown. We don't know where their graves
01:34are.
01:34Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance marked Remembrance Day and its own 90th anniversary. People first
01:40gathering here on November 11, 1934.
01:44So to be here at the Shrine on Remembrance Day obviously anchors us to what it means
01:49to remember service and sacrifice.
01:51From the country, a day to remember.
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