The World Remembers is a remarkable project. It respects and honours the loss of life of all people, no matter who they fought for or where they were born. The World Remembers reflects the values of our country: that all people are equal, all people are welcome, and all people are respected. Menu The World Remembers. Gallery Menu.
People of the War. About The Project. Jonathan Vance — Historian Close to four million names from twenty participating nations currently appear in our display. The purpose of this commemoration is to name them all. Death by artillery-fire was no respecter of whether soldiers were running towards or away from the enemy. After the war, however, the problem of reintegrating into society both those who had served and those who had lost, and finding a narrative that could contain both, found one answer by an emphasis on the universality of heroism.
For the fiftieth anniversary of , the BBC commissioned the twenty-six part series The Great War , based around archive footage and featuring interviews with veterans. There was an authoritative narrative voice, but no presenters. For the eightieth anniversary, it collaborated with an American television company on a six-part series littered with academic talking-heads. These invariably culminate next to graves and memorials in a display of the right kind of televisual emotion at the moment the formula demands and the audience has come to expect.
The focus of these programmes — family history as a means of understanding the past — is worthy of note in itself. It is indicative of the dramatic growth of family history as a leisure interest, perhaps in response to the sense of dislocation inherent in modernity. The bureaucratic tidemark left by the great war has made it a frequent point of departure for those on a search for as the zeitgeist-capturing title of a popular BBC TV series has it who they think they are.
As those who experienced it as children also fall prey to the ravages of time, it has passed over the boundary of lived memory. These can serve as a site for storytelling or an inspiration for investigation. Many people simply have no viable connection to the war. Many had ancestors who left little or no trace — whether for reasons of poverty, education, personal preference or because families deliberately chose to forget them at the time.
But the notion that inheritance is the only, let alone the best, way to approach the past is arrant nonsense. To present the war only in these terms both excludes those who do not have family relics or handed-down stories, and actually inhibits the recasting of the national narrative. A society that is busy grieving for fallen heroes finds it much harder to question its assumptions about the world in which they lived and the legacy it bequeathed to later generations.
The search for family history is usually shaped by modern preconceptions, and as such it seldom results by itself in a deeper understanding of the past. The web is frequently celebrated as a key route o more extensive engagement.
It holds out the potential to democratise the study of the past, both by making expert knowledge not always from within the academy available and by making primary evidence more widely accessible. In large part, however, it has yet to fulfil that promise. Skip links and keyboard navigation Skip to content Use tab and cursor keys to move around the page more information. Site header. You are here: Home How we remember.
How we remember Since the Boer War in , over one million Australians have served in ten wars. Sharing our stories Sharing family photos, reading letters home from the war, sharing stories, attending bold ceremonies and taking a moment for quiet reflection—these actions and many others help us to keep the memory of Anzac alive for generations to come. Stevo My friends and I have been, for the past several years, loading up our tinnie and heading over to the northern tip of Bribie Island, off Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast, before sunrise.
Anita I quietly express my gratitude for all of the things I have, even the little things, but most of all family. Bruce I always tell the kids about my visits to the war cemeteries in the Middle East and in particular El Alemien and Beersheba. Dianne I post a message and photo of my dad on Facebook telling everyone how proud I am of him. Kim Write and send a story about a family member to my sons, decorate the house for Anzac Day with poppies and a tree of crosses to remember those many who never returned home.
Deborah I play my part in sharing Poppies on my Facebook wall in remembrance of my Grand Uncle who served in WW1 and died on the Western Front and my grandfather who died from war injuries from WW2 and taking part in re-enactment ceremonies as part of a military group as a Anzac nurse from WW1 to honour their memories. Video 'How Queenslanders remember' See how real people remember and honour those who served. Get the Flash Plugin to see this video. Licence Last updated 3 December, Page feedback Your privacy Information collected through this form is used to improve this website.
Yet for many of us, war is a phenomenon seen through the lens of a television camera or a journalist's account of fighting in distant parts of the world. Our closest physical and emotional experience may be the discovery of wartime memorabilia in a family attic.
But even items such as photographs, uniform badges, medals, and diaries can seem vague and unconnected to the life of their owner. For those of us born during peacetime, all wars seem far removed from our daily lives. We often take for granted our Canadian values and institutions, our freedom to participate in cultural and political events, and our right to live under a government of our choice. The Canadians who went off to war in distant lands went in the belief that the values and beliefs enjoyed by Canadians were being threatened.
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