20/04/2025
This year, 2025, marks 110 years since the Gallipoli campaign. We take time now to reflect on what ANZAC Day 2025 represents to us and our generation.....
As ANZAC Day approaches, it reminds us why we work so hard.
ANZAC Day, for us, isn’t just another public holiday. It’s a sacred day of remembrance — a day to reflect, honour, and thank those who fought and sacrificed to give us the opportunities we have today.
ANZAC Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, commemorating all Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations, and recognising the contribution and suffering of all service men and women.
We thank every Veteran, past and present, for their sacrifice.
Because of you, we have the freedom to live, to dream, and to build our futures.
Because of you, we have the opportunity to choose our paths, to work towards our goals, and to create lives filled with meaning and success.
We have learned from our Veteran mentors that while saying "thank you" matters, what matters even more is how we live our gratitude. Every Veteran has sacrificed something — and some gave everything.
Their sacrifices protect our freedoms, our opportunities, and our very way of life.
Many people today sleep soundly, unaware of the warriors who have stood between them and danger for generations.
The wolves have always been at the door.
It’s our Veterans — our heroes — who have kept them at bay.
From our Veteran mentors, we’ve also learned a hard truth: freedom is not free.
It comes at the ultimate cost — lives given, futures forfeited, sacrifices made without hesitation.
Freedom has been entrusted to us.
It must be upheld with respect, humility, integrity, and strong character.
We recognise that for many of us, especially those of us who are young, neurodivergent males, life could have looked very different if not for our Veterans.
In other parts of the world — in places Australian and New Zealand soldiers have fought — neurodivergent people are still persecuted.
Young autistic males are eradicated, enslaved, institutionalised under barbaric conditions, and denied even the most basic human rights.
Because of our Veterans' sacrifices, we are free.
We have rights, opportunities, and futures many abroad will never know.
There is no glory in war, only the unseen cost of freedom.
ANZAC Day is not a glorification of battle.
It is a solemn promise that we will never forget the fallen, and never forget the price that was paid.
This ANZAC Day, one of our crew will wear his Great Great and Great Grandfather’s medals with pride and honour — medals earned in the trenches of Gallipoli as part of the 17th Battalion.
We honour not only his bravery but the spirit of every ANZAC — those who never made it home, and those who gave everything so that we could have everything.
We carry with us the lessons of our Veterans:
You are entitled to nothing.
Everything must be earned — respect, trust, reputation, success, and character.
Nothing in life is free.
You must work for it, fight for it, and uphold it with integrity.
Today, we look around and acknowledge the truth:
We are now at the age that many young men were when they went off to fight in WWI and WWII.
Would we have had the strength, the courage, the resilience they showed?
It humbles us deeply — and reminds us of the legacy we are entrusted to carry forward.
We owe it to them — and to ourselves — to never squander the freedom we have been given.
To build our futures through hard work, sacrifice, values, and honour.
Freedom is never free.
It is the gift given by those who were willing to give up their tomorrows so we could have ours.
This ANZAC Day, and every day, we remember.
We honour.
We uphold.
Lest We Forget.
We will be back to normal operations after ANZAC Day.
We thank out Veteran mentor and master craftsmen Justin Harrison for guiding our way in life as young men.
