{"id":199,"date":"2008-02-09T12:34:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T01:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2008-02-09T12:34:37","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T01:34:37","slug":"commemorative-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Commemorative Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">&#8220;Lest We Forget&#8221; Project<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"\u2018Lest We Forget\u00a0Project\u2019\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-200\" href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/09\/commemorative-tour\/lest-we-forget-project\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/mackaynth_wreath-laying-website.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Lest We Forget\u00a0Project\u2019\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>FFFAIF<\/em> member, Mike Goodwin, a History teacher at Mackay North State High School, is currently organising his school&#8217;s 5<sup>th<\/sup> overseas commemorative tour to Thailand, Gallipoli, France \/ Belgium and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>This tour, the Remembrance 2008 Commemorative Tour, is part of the school&#8217;s very successful &#8220;Lest We Forget&#8221; Project, which has been featured on the ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Australian Story&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The main focus of the tour is for students to research and commemorate individual soldiers who died and who are buried or commemorated in the areas to be visited.<\/p>\n<p>At each grave or memorial the students deliver a eulogy, place a poppy, recite the Ode and the group observes a minute silence in honour of the soldier and his sacrifice.\u00a0 The grave \/ memorial name is then photographed and these photos are presented to the families on the group&#8217;s return.<\/p>\n<p>The students are happy to hear from people who may like to have their relative honoured in this way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Any interested people can contact project co-ordinator, Mike Goodwin &#8211; 07 49631729 or <a href=\"mailto:mickg@mackay.net.au\">mickg@mackay.net.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lest We Forget&#8221; Project \u00a0 FFFAIF member, Mike Goodwin, a History teacher at Mackay North State High School, is currently organising his school&#8217;s 5th overseas commemorative tour to Thailand, Gallipoli, France \/ Belgium and Singapore. This tour, the Remembrance 2008 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=199\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commemorations","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}