AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Blue Ribbon Foundation


The Victoria Police Blue Ribbon Foundation was established in 1998 (merging several existing groups).
It perpetuates the memory of police killed in the line of duty.
There are 16 branches across Victoria, with the base at Moorabbin, an inner suburb of Melbourne.
A branch on my Mornington Peninsula is quite new - established 2011.
It is at Frankston Heights.


sweet memories
with care
need not fade


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4 comments:

Jim said...

Have not seen this before.

Taken For Granted said...

Is it just me, or is it odd that the Blue Ribbon Foundation has a van with a yellow ribbon on it?

Lesley said...

This is very impressive (and to have the names go back as far as the 1850s is also impressive!)

Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

Good, a constant reminder of their sacrifice.

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