To round out our Easter weekend we just went for a local, unscripted drive looking for something to do. We wound up at the Mandurah War Memorial which I have not seen before. It gave us a chance to talk to the kids about war, and what “Lest We Forget” means. This particular sculpture rises from the water, getting taller in the middle, then diminishing again on the other side almost representing headstones in a graveyard. Indeed, Ashton asked if there were people buried there. Some of the white stones had inscriptions, ranging from along the lines of “I was a carpenter” to “I fought in hell at Tobruk” through to “I am proud to be Australian” towards the end. I don’t claim to be a master at interpreting meanings, but me and Ashton between us got the idea that the structure as a whole represented the rise of courage and the falling of some soldiers in battle, and that the inscriptions might have given us a better understanding that the soldiers were just regular people like you and me.