Lest we forget

This ANZAC Day, I’d like to remember not only the fallen, but also the returned, and especially those who are broken of spirit.

I want to remember all of those people who marched off to serve their country, and came home with pieces torn out of their souls.

For the horrors they witnessed.  The horrors done to them.  The horrors they committed.  The terrible things made necessary by war, and the terrible unnecessary things condoned in a world gone mad.

I want to remember those who endure the terror and trauma that never really leaves, that seeps and surrounds and informs their days, and their long dark nights.

Lest we forget.

Photograph by Dept of Defence