Ninety one-year-old Ray Werren sat at Newcastle's Civic Park fountain and reflected on the first Anzac Service he attended as an 18-year-old.
"I was serving an apprenticeship in Sydney. I went to the main service at Martin Place and there were hundreds of thousands there. I'll never forget it," Mr Werren, a National Service conscript at the Williamtown RAAF base during the Korean War said.
