outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

PNG Remembrance Day

was commemorated yesterday. Hopefully I can find details of the main national Commemoration service from the papers. With the TV's having been broken I am unaware of how the day was observed. There was sporting activity on the University ovals that I am aware of but nothing else. Oh yes, our Church was to have held an observance at 8am yesterday but I did not go in for it.
The Post Courier reported: "LAE city residents celebrated the Remembrance Day with a small but solemn ceremony at the Engineer Battalion Igam Barracks. A commemoration service preceded the traditional rites of wreath laying, recital of the "Ode" and playing of the "Last Post". The SDA Combined Choir led the singing with hymns including "Blessed Assurance", "Abide with me" and "How great thou art". During the service the names of nine soldiers that were among those killed in the Bougainville conflict between 1989 and 1997 were read out. Students from the Igam Primary School joined the celebration, with two students laying a wreath to represent the young generation".

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