Behind the scenes at Friends Of The Odd Bods there is plenty of communication going on as you can imagine.Our annual invitation to the ANZAC March usually brings a flurry of emails and members like Bryan Wilcockson from Selby in the UK like to join the spirit of the invitation even if distance might be a problem -
“Navigator to Pilot”
“Roger that, march from Selby to Melbourne definitely a ‘do-able’ on ANZAC day. Request permission to march one abreast (it’s not that I’m a ‘Billy-No-Mates’ just struggling to find another ‘Odd-Bod’ in Selby)
Riverwalk Amora Hotel not found. Suggest rendezvous at Melbourne Arms 53°52′04″N 000°50′19″W”
One year we will have to get Bryan over for the March or maybe take up his offer of a reunion at the Melbourne Arms.
Another correspondent is Gabrielle Hogan, widow of Odd Bod Harl Hogan, who writes the most wonderfully descriptive emails. Gabrielle will be attending the Palm Beach ANZAC March up in Sydney this year and she wishes us every success with our march while "thinking of all who served their country, and so many of those who did, losing their lives, in the wars."
Check out the article about RAAF Pilot Eric Barton and his resounding ANZAC Day speech which Gabrielle alerted us to.
A big thank you to all who have communicated over recent weeks and our thoughts go out to those who for various reasons, can't make it on ANZAC Day.
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