On the morning of 19 June 2010, in a simple but moving ceremony, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith and I laid wreaths at the State War Memorial at Kings Park which has a commanding view of Perth and the Swan River. Veterans assembled with their medals; a bugler played the last post. Most moving was the recitation of the fourth stanza of Laurence Binyon's "For the Fallen". In Canberra, in every state, in every community, at sites all over the world like Singapore and Gallipoli, they remember those who gave their lives in war.
George Yeo
LEST WE FORGET
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
Laurence Binyon - For The Fallen (4th Stanza)
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