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Eighty years ago, soldiers from Australia and New Zealand were in Greece fighting the Nazis during the Battle of Crete. It would lead to Evan Nathan's parents meeting and starting a relationship that would span multiple decades and continents.
Greensburg Bloodhound Team Commander Lou Battistella, along with Team Captain Bud Mertz and Lieutenant David Klingler, accompanied the Greensburg Fire Departmentâs Public Safety Resource once again for the 49th year to the National Police Bloodhound Associationâs (NPBA) 40-Hour Spring Training and Certification Seminar. The NPBA, founded by the Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut State Police in 1962, provides training, instruction and evaluation, offering certification to law enforcement Bloodhound teams throughout the United States. The Greensburg Bloodhound Tea...
Advertisement Music and song is an important element of human endeavor and interaction. Whether at times of celebration or times of sadness, we all can be touched by an appropriate tune or song. A time of war is no different. And during some of the darkest moments in the Greek Campaign of 1941, soldiers felt the need to join in song as they faced yet another challenge. Across April and May this year we are commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Greek campaign. This is the story of two songs from the Hellenic link to Anzac in 1941. I have written previously of the end of the Greek campaign ...
Share on Twitter Leon Ruri and Ashley Penfold are both believers in the importance of connection to culture, land and history. The men are the founders of Haka for Life and Corroboree for Life, two like-minded Indigenous-led organisations on a shared mission to reduce suicide across Australia. In 2018, they arranged for hundreds of men, women and children to perform a Noongar corroboree and a Māori haka as part of the Anzac Day dawn service in Perth’s King’s Park. It was an iconic moment and, perhaps, the most visible and proud display of Indigenous cultures ever seen...
Share on Twitter A broad smile overwhelms the face of Dominique Yanai. He's just seen a photo of his great-grandfather Morizo for the first time, which has been unearthed by SBS News. It's one of only two images of him known to exist. “Wow. That’s amazing. I can't explain what I’m actually feeling right now, it’s a big emotion,” the 42-year-old says. “We’ve never seen that before. I can’t wait to share with all the family." Seventy-five years ago, Morizo was among about 1,000 Japanese civilian internees forcibly removed from detention centres in Australia at ...