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Some Thoughts on Crete - honouring those who have gone before

Mount RSA – 75 th Anniversary of Battle of Crete Readings: Reading:          Isaiah 2:4                    What I want to say: What does it mean to commemorate this battel? Isit enough to just remember it? Or is it something more? Suggests it is to work for a world where no more young men and women need go off to fight in foreign lands, where swords are into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more The Sermon      1.      Introduction: Ki te matekai tou hoariri, whangainga ki te matewai, whakainumia Tihei Mauri ora I am John Hebenton Vicar of St. Georges Anglican Church Gate Pa on the hill of Pukehinahina by Mega mitre 10 on Cameron Road Scene of one last battle of New Zealan...