Happy ANZAC day everyone!!!! Today is ANZAC day and that's when everyone has a long weekend to remember the soldiers who had risk their lives in the war to save our country. Today is also the 100th year since WW1 ( world war one) happened. A lot of people usually go to the dawn parade held at the Auckland museum, the dawn parade starts at 3:00 or 4:00am.
At the dawn parade there are lots of poppies and crosses that have most of the soldiers names on them, if the people can't identify the soldier it would say Known By God. Our school has a little box filled with grass and has a crosses with the name of the soldiers that used to live around our area. I think 30 crosses have names and one has Known By God, In the front there is a bigger cross that has some words on it with a poppy next to it.
On one of the walls of our school we have a painting of a poppy and then a soldier carrying a hurt soldier, it was painted by our associate principal Mr Jacobson. It looks really cool. He spent a whole school day painting the wall because it was a really big painting to.
The reason why we have poppies for ANZAC is because a lot of the soldiers died on a field and a lot of poppies grew out of the grass, the field is called Flanders field.
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