ANZAC Day at the Shrine of Remembrance

ANZAC Day? What's that? Anyway, I woke up early to watch the Anzac Day parade march from Swanston St to the Shrine of Remembrance. The march dismissed at the shrine about 3 km away from my place.

The shrine is built; "In remembrance of those who served and those who died in the Great War of 1914-1918 and armed conflicts and peacekeeping duties since."

Lots of senior citizen joined the march. Flooding the road with banners, flags and emblems proudly. Some travel in style, in their vintage cars, probably they were too old to walk. Some in wheelchairs, walking sticks and some even with their prosthetic legs. And I noticed, people cheered and clapped louder for these guys. The marching lasted for more than 4 hours.

They had 2 bands playing the whole time, alternately, to give rest to one another. It must be damn tiring, huh? They kept on playing and repeating a number of music pieces until i can recognized the play entitled,"Glorious Victory". La, la, la, la, la, lalala...

At about noon, i felt tired so i went home. Happy ANZAC Day, yea, it is a public holiday.