STUDENTS from Eumemmerring Secondary College stopped to pay their respects on Monday and remember the sacrifices made by Australian war veterans.
The Fountain Gate campuses’ fifth annual Anzac Day ceremony was attended by many service people as well as representatives from Narre Warren police and Casey mayor Kevin Bradford.
School principal Vicki Walters said retired naval nurse and commander with the Australian Navy and a board member at the Shrine of Remembrance, Patricia Vines, had also attended the ceremony and talked about the role women played in war.
Ms Walters said it was important that people did not forget the sacrifices made by the country’s war veterans so Australia could remain free.
“Sometimes we all take this for granted and ceremonies like this help us to stop and remember,” she said.
Holt MP Anthony Byrne and Narre Warren North MP Luke Donnellan also attended along with New Zealand Consul-General Mark Ingram and Lieutenant Commander Michael Kludass from HMAS Cerberus.
Ms Walters said students were heavily involved in the ceremony and had read the Anzac Requiem and Daniel Robinson, a student from the college’s Hallam campus, had played ‘The Last Post’ on his bugle.
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