00:03Well, a lot of them, it says less we forget on the bottom of the headstone, and at least
00:08I'm not going to forget.
00:11If they've had relatives, if they're maybe the last of their line, there's nobody left
00:15to sort of come and see them, and I don't want them to be forgotten.
00:20Once they get to the graves, they stand there at attention, play the last post, recite the
00:24old Plara Valley.
00:27You don't really know how it's going to go until you finish.
00:30It's big pressure, and to get it right, I take it very, very seriously.
00:35I normally practice from Australia Day up to Anzac Day.
00:382024 I did the same thing, came up to the cemetery every day to practice.
00:42Well, once I got to Anzac Day after Australia Day practicing, I thought, well, why stop?
00:45And I got a bit of an understanding of how many graves are actually up here.
00:52If I'm here with the kids, I'll ask them which driveway we go to.
00:55If I'm out of town, I pick the first grave that I see.
00:58Normally, one of the white war graves, they stand out pretty well.
01:01I put a poppy rock on there, so a little black rock.
01:04My daughters and I paint these.
01:08I'm certainly better at it than I used to be, and I do this mainly to try and contain
01:12the nerves, and it kind of works.
01:14It was absolutely terrifying, but being able to play the last post at Dad's and both my
01:19grandfather's funerals was a massive honour.
01:22That's Dad and his greens.
01:23I've sort of started my own tradition.
01:26I just want to keep practising.
01:28These people gave a lot, got injured in war, you know, being gassed or being severely injured
01:35or they just haven't coped when they came back.
01:37So it's giving back to them, making sure that if they are around, that they are remembered.
01:49I don't have a lot of weight compared to them.
01:49I hope that the center of the window was a little bit on your mind is a little bit.
01:50So if you've got a lot of weight, you'll see what happened.
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