The bombing of Darwin in 1942 is known as the day World War Two came to Australia, as military personnel and their families are a major part of the fabric of the Top End. It made Remembrance Day ceremonies in the Territory all the more significant as hundreds gathered in Darwin and Alice Springs to mark the solemn occasion.
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00:00Flags at half-mast for a moment of reflection.
00:07When there's something that's happened where over 100,000 people have not returned back to their families and stuff like that, I believe that's very, very important to remember them.
00:19Braving the heat in Darwin and on Anzac Hill in Alice Springs to commemorate those who dedicated their lives to service.
00:28To me, service is about the greater good, putting others, your nation and your community before yourself.
00:34It is more than a job. It is about supporting and lifting others and providing hope.
00:40On a day that looks to the past, today was also about the future, with new traditions like this poem written from the perspective of a veteran.
00:50Don't be sad or weep for me. Be happy, my mates, when you think of me. Lest we forget.
01:02While others hope for a future when the guns fall silent for good.
01:07Let us also honour and use the occasion of Remembrance Day to work towards a world that is more peaceful at a time when the world desperately needs more peace.
01:23The significance of the location of the ceremony not lost on the crowd.
01:28This site overlooks Darwin Harbour from which all who served in the First World War and would have been one of the last familiar sights they saw.
01:36Ending with the last post marking the last day of the First World War.