If you go to Canberra then you MUST go to the War Memorial and the Museum. I can't stress that enough.
We didn't want to do anything after that apart from retail therapy for Karen and a couple of beers at an Irish pub while we mulled over our thoughts.
One comment we both had was that it is hard to reconcile our understanding of how you treat people with that shown by the Japanese during WWII.
Simpson's Donkey. What we didn't realise about this story was that:
1) Simpson was a Pom who just wanted to get back home.
2) He only lasted 24 days.
3) He was the first, but there were dozens of men with donkeys helping the wounded down.
The view to Parliament House.
This is about 7-% of the WWI list of the dead - 62,000 of them in all.
Inside the Hall of Remembrance
The eternal flame.
Lest we forget.
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