Congratulations to Amanda Yang has placed first equal in the Passchendaele competition being run by the Ministry for Veteran Affairs.
The Prize is to be a Youth Ambassador for New Zealand on a three week trip to the site in Belgium in October, and associated side trips,- all expenses paid and $2,000 cash.
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Passchendaele 12 October 1917 - Fu Man (Amanda) Yang, Year 13
12 October 1917
5:25am opening barrage began
Second New Zealand infantry brigade and third New Zealand rifles
Walked on
Mud and rain and pain
That dragged them every centimetre marched Much closer to the grave
Cloaked by blinding gas
Suffocated
Drained
No respite
No energy left to fight
And still...
The enemy rattled through belt after belt while the New Zealanders fell by the score
They fell on Gravenstafel road tangled in wire
No call to retire
They fought on
On 12 October 1917
3:00pm another push
This time halted
and the dying slowed
846 sons of New Zealand mothers fell
That darkest day before the dimming of the light
In the dawn eight kilometres gained
At the cost of 846
106 men and boys for every one kilometre won
But what a loss
Of New Zealand sons and lovers, men and boys
...
12 October 2017
We will remember them
They who were young, straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
The sons of NZ mothers, the lovers, the brothers, the men and boys from Aotearoa
We will gather in the half light at the dawning of the day
In a foreign field
Where row on row on row the poppies grow
Like a korowai bestowed by Papatuanuku
To cover up our men
To protect them from their foes
A foe who too lies
in a country that is not their own
A generation that will never return to their home
On this day
We stand beside them as we could not do in battle
Our men, our boys from Aotearoa
Haere rã e tama Haere rã.
Haria rã te aroha i ahau
Aue! me tangi noa
Ahau ki muri nei
Te iwi e
He ngãkau tangi noa.
We their people weep again
In Passchendaele 100 years today
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