Remember the families who lost someone
/The grief we witnessed above the beach, the realisation that here now, a dearly loved one had passed, multiplied by 60,000, Australians killed in World War I.
Read MoreTwo minutes silence
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But when we stop in silence, even in despair, when we take even a few moments and see, as I did on my walk this morning, a redbacked fairy wren going about his business, we move from the future we might be afraid of, the regretted past, and into the present, where there is life.
Read MoreLest we forget they were boys
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I’m focusing on that age of 12 because my son turns 12 this year. Many of the boys and girls in his class are 12 already. And 12 happens to be the age of the youngest British soldier known to have served in World War I.
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