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April 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Lowering the flags at the retreat is a military custom which dates back 400 years and let people know the gates to the city were closing.
It is also a tradition for the conclusion of Anzac Day commemorations, according to RSL NSW treasurer Rod White.
On Wednesday it was the turn of 15-year-old Sydney singing sensation Jack Vidgen to sing the national anthem while the band of the Ambulance Service of NSW provided the music for the sunset service.
Mr White told the service which concluded the 97th Anzac Day commemorations in Sydney, retreat signifies the end of the military day when those on daytime duty handed over to those who would carry on through the night.
“In the 16th and 17th centuries, retreat was referred to as “watch setting” with troops often deployed during the day outside the city walls, it was necessary to give them and the local inhabitants some warning signal that the gates were about to be closed.
“Then with the soldiers and civilians safely inside the city, the gates would be closed and the sentries or watch posted.
“The sentinels posted after the closing of the gates would then challenge all movement outside the walls until daybreak when the troops might again go out to continue battle.”
Dignitaries at the service included federal MP Tanya Plibersek and General Peter Cosgrove.
Meanwhile, thousands of Australian and New Zealand tourists gathered at Gallipoli in Turkey, where Prime Minister Julia Gillard paid tribute to “the men who came from the ends of the earth to fight a far-off war”.
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