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April 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Governor-General Quentin Bryce and her husband, Michael, stand with troops at the dawn service to commemorate Anzac Day on the Australian base in Afghanistan.
GOVERNOR-GENERAL Quentin Bryce has made a surprise visit to Australian troops in Afghanistan on Anzac Day.
Ms Bryce addressed several hundred soldiers at the dawn service at Tarin Kowt base in the Oruzgan province.
The 32 Australian soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan, were commemorated during the ceremony with poppies.
Ms Bryce, and her husband, Michael, dined in the mess hall with troops and spent the morning at the base before meeting Afghan President Hamid Karzai and presenting him with a toy kangaroo.
Ms Bryce paid tribute to the ”modern Anzacs” fighting in Afghanistan and the 32 Australian soldiers who lost their lives there. ”[Their loss] reaches into all of our hearts,” she said.
She said it was an enormous privilege to attend the dawn service with serving soldiers at the military base.
”It’s always very touching when we reflect on our proud military history, the sacrifices of servicemen and women,” she said. ”To be here in Tarin Kowt with our modern Anzacs is so inspiring.”
Ms Bryce, who later left for the United Arab Emirates, thanked the soldiers for their efforts each day and their mental and physical toughness.
Meanwhile, thousands of Australians have gathered in northern France to mark the Anzac Day commemoration of their World War I dead.
The Last Post was played as a wreath was laid in a dawn ceremony in the village of Villers-Bretonneux, which was recaptured from German forces in a night raid by Australian troops on April 25, 1918.
The ceremony was presided over by Australia’s ambassador to France, Ric Wells, and was attended by Australian Veterans Affairs Minister Warren Snowdon and France’s junior defence minister, Marc Laffineur.
Those at the Villers-Bretonneux ceremony symbolically joined hundreds of thousands of Australians and New Zealanders honouring their war dead at services across the two nations and at battlefields around the globe.
The village acknowledges its debt to Australia with the words ”N’oublions jamais l’Australie” (Let us never forget Australia) written in the classrooms of the local school, rebuilt with Australian donations in 1920.
Some 46,000 Australian servicemen died in the battlefields of northern France during the struggle for control of the western front.
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