The poignant event was jointly organised by the Singapore Cricket Club, Singapore History Consultants, the History Department of NUS and The Changi Museum. An all day symposium was then held at the Cricket Club to discuss various topics in relation to the changes and continuity of our understanding of the Great War for the past 100 years.
The following was read at the service –
Pericles’ Eulogy
Each has won a glorious grave – not that sepulchre of earth wherein they lie, but the living tomb of everlasting remembrance wherein their glory is enshrined.
For the whole earth is the sepulchre of heroes.
Monuments may rise and tablets be set up to them in their own land, but on far-off shores there is an abiding memorial that no pen or chisel has traced; it is graven not on stone or brass, but on the living hearts of humanity.
Take these men for your example. Like them, remember that prosperity can be only for the free, that freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
