Our strength in caring: Curtis McGrath's Anzac Day dawn service speech

By Curtis McGrath
Updated April 25 2017 - 4:27pm, first published 4:19pm
Curtis McGrath addresses the dawn service at the Australian War Memorial. Photo: Karleen Minney
Curtis McGrath addresses the dawn service at the Australian War Memorial. Photo: Karleen Minney

Seventy-five years ago, Australia braced for impact, from the ever-encroaching conflict of World War II, as it made its way south through the Pacific. At a desperate low in the Kokoda campaign, stretcher-bearers lugged wounded Australian soldiers for days through strangling, unyielding jungle to reach medical help.

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