Hi there
Remember last year's ANZAC Day when we in New Zealand were in lockdown, and we couldn't officially commemorate our service people, past and present? There were no marches to Cenotaphs or through towns to remember the past. We all stood at our gates at the same time and had a minute's silence instead.
This year, things are back to normal. There will be marches tomorrow (25 April NZ time), the young will wear grandads' medals, the poppy will be worn with pride...
NZ and Australia lost a horrific number of troops at Gallipoli in 1915, in appalling conditions.
In two World Wars.
Flanders Fields is a common name for battlefields in Belgium. The famous poem starts off "In Flanders Field, the poppies grow, between the crosses row on row...."
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