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Written by Pericles over two thousand years ago.
ANZAC Day was a long way off but interestingly enough he wrote these words not far from Gallipoli itself.
ANZAC Day was a long way off but interestingly enough he wrote these words not far from Gallipoli itself.
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Each has won a glorious grave - not that sepulcher
of earth wherein they lie, but the living tomb of everlasting
remembrance wherein their glory is enshrined.
Images @ Melonpopzdropz FlickrFor the whole earth is the sepulcher of heroes. Monuments may rise and tablets be set up to them in their own land, but on far-off shores there is an abiding memorial that no pen or chisel has traced; it is graven not on stone or brass, but on the living hearts of humanity.
Take these men for your example. Like them, remember that prosperity can be only for the free, that freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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