A walk around the lake on a gorgeous autumn day
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Battle of Coral Sea Commemoration
On May 5, the Australian-American Association hosted the commemoration of the battle of the coral sea here in canberra. It was pretty cool and it was nice (and rare) to celebrate both sides of my family military history at the same time. Great day!
The "Catafalque Party" made up of Australian Navy and US Marines
The Governor-General taking a wreath to lay at the American Memorial
All the wreathes from various groups
The US Ambassador to Australia giving a speech
Me with the last two surviving Australian veterans of the Coral Sea Battle - they were hilarious!
Lame update...
So I haven't been on here in ages, I will try to do better! I have been working on my office the past couple weeks. I got a sweet desk, some wall stuff that I still need to put up (will take more photos then) and made an accent wall. Since I rent I can't paint or do wallpaper so I improvised with wrapping paper and sticky-tac! I am happy with it!
PS - couldn't get the first picture to rotate (it is from my phone) so tilt your head to the right to see it!
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