VETERANS and members of the public turned out to pay their respects in two separate Remembrance Day services.
Gold Coast Legacy held a service and five kilometre Family Remembrance Walk at Kokoda Barracks prior to Remembrance Day.
A brief but moving service was held at the newly established Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, followed by a five kilometre walk through the barracks.
Steve Firth from Gold Coast Legacy organised the event and thanked the cataflaque party and students from TSS who also attended the service.
On Remembrance Day Graeme Thompson gave a moving address at the service in D J Smith Park.
“It was on this day in 1918 that guns fell silent on the Western Front and hostilities ceased, to end the great, World War 1,” he said.
“We are thankful for those ANZACs whose actions established the traditions we, as a nation, hold so dearly today.”
“When the time came again, the Sons and Daughters of these Service men came forward without question and accepted the responsibility asked of them in defence of their Country in World War 2, and at times of turmoil in Korea, Borneo, Vietnam, United Nation campaigns and more recently, East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq.”
“We remember the efforts of those who now sleep peacefully in Flanders Fields, the Sands of Alamein, Tropical Forests of Papua New Guinea and the peaceful Olive Groves of Greece and Crete.”
