![\"\"](\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/IMG_6240-300x200.jpg\")
\u201cI was always involved in Anzac Day as I marched with my Nan every year in Sebastopol,\u201d she said. \u201cI was six years old on my first march.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Porra said she helped her Nan make biscuits and hand out cups of tea after the march.<\/p>\n
Her great-grandmother Joyce Smith served in the RAAF from 1942 to 1945.<\/p>\n
She packed the parachutes for the airmen who were being deployed during the War.<\/p>\n
Ms Porra proudly said her Nan was also the president of the Sebastopol RSL Ladies Auxiliary for over ten years.<\/p>\n
Mrs Smith passed away five years ago and Ms Porra no longer takes part in the march.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a heart-warming day but very sad,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Coral Rowe, 89 years young, is a Legacy widow.<\/p>\n
Mrs Rowe said Anzac Day is a day for remembering her family who went to war.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think about my husband John, an Army private who fought in New Guinea in WWII, my brother-in-law was a POW in Germany and a step-brother who was killed in New Guinea,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnzac Day brings it all home to you, its not as if they were in the First World War but they did their bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mrs Rowe attended the dawn service at the cenotaph in Sturt for many years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Anzac Day has really come into its own in many ways because when I first started going to the dawn service there were never many there, now it\u2019s a huge crowd,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople have become very conscious of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ANZAC Day means different things to different people. It commemorates the landing of Australian soldiers at Gallipoli during WWI, it\u2019s considered by some to symbolise the birth of the Australian identity, and it is synonymous with remembrance and the dawn service. Eric Duggan, President of the Ballarat branch of the Vietnam Veterans Association said it […]<\/p>\n