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World War I revelation changes how ABC reporter Alexander Darling sees Anzac Day
I have never commemorated Anzac Day in any significant way.
As a child, I always looked forward to seeing Essendon and Collingwood at the MCG and I absorbed with awe the spectacle of 100,000 people standing silently.
But until this year I never fully appreciated why we get up early and stand so introspectively in the middle of our towns and cities.
Supplied: Giselle Darling
)I knew my great-grandfather Frederick Brooke Darling – Fred, as he was known — had been a captain during World War I and had his leg blown off by a shell, but that was about it.
I wasn’t much interested in knowing more: I never knew him – he died 11…
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