'Lest We Forget" :108th Anzac Day Marked In Samoa
ANZAC Day Parade
Photo By:Ionatana Kalepo Solofa / Digicel Samoa
A dawn service at the Town Clock on Tuesday of this week honored the
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (A.N.Z.A.C) Day in Samoa.
Lemanu Sialega Mauga, the governor of American Samoa, was one of the
many distinguished visitors that attended the ceremony and memorial.
His Highness Tuimalealiifano, the head of state Masiofo Vaaletoa
Sualauvi II and Her Majesty Members of the diplomatic corps, senior
caretaker government officials, and Faatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi
(F.A.S.T.) party members, including La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea
Schmidt, the party's deputy leader, attended Faamausili Leinafo
Tuimalealiifano.
After the formalities there was a moment of silence to honor the men
and women who have served and are still serving in the defense forces
of Australia and New Zealand. According to Mr. Tupangaia, they will
remember those who have died or suffered in these conflicts.
Representatives of the diplomatic corps, relatives, friends, and
government officials all paid their condolences by laying wreaths
during the ceremony. At the dawn service, the national anthems of
Samoa, New Zealand, and Australia were also sung.
In Samoa, Public Subscription erected the tower as a memorial to the
young men who were born there and served in the Great War.Samoa has
honored the memory of the Australian, New Zealander, and Samoan
servicemen who died more than a century ago at Anzac Cove on the
shores of Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I.
Anzac Day honors the date that Australian and New Zealand forces
arrived at Gallipoli, Turkey, on April 25, 1915 and has been
celebrated in Samoa for more than a decade.