It's Anzac Day in Australia -- that's the equivalent of the US Memorial Day and the UK Remembrance Day.
100 years ago my father was fighting in France and Flanders. He was a mortar gunner.
He received a shrapnel wound in one leg and was on the receiving end of a German mustard gas attack. It blinded him in one eye, as well as its other effects.
Do you have somebody you'd like to remember at this time.

Considering that my unit at one time had Australians, a New Zealander, a couple of Japanese and R.O.K. men in it, I would like to give my  best wishes and feelings towards these great men. Not sure how many are still around but they were all great men. I remember them all quite well !

"Old soldiers never die, they just fade away".

As long as they are remembered they will never die.

I'd like to remember and honor my father, a WWII vet and a few friends that died in Vietnam.

My dad loved to tell the story of when he was shot in the butt while in France. He was lying in a ditch after a field dressing was applied, sound asleep. He and his fellow wounded were startled by nuns throwing flowers on them, thinking that they were dead soldiers. The nuns ran away screaming.