The official commemorations for Australian military personnel who’ve died on the battlefield or whose lives were marred due to war service have long been adorned with ecclesiastical language.
Friday’s services across the country are the most profound cases in point even though, after almost 110 years of Anzac Days, many Australians may have become culturally inured to the way our national remembrance has become – and remains – so imbued with religiously inflected rhetoric.
