Each year Anzac Day is imbued with new meaning.
This year our thoughts and prayers will be directed to the 50 Muslim worshipers - especially their surviving family members and friends - who were killed in Christchurch by a cowardly act of terrorism on Friday, March 15.
Young people also keep Anzac Day alive and relevant. Fifteen-year-old NPGH student Hannah-Leigh Collinson wrote a song after the Christchurch mosque attacks and she performed it in the Hokonui studio.
The song, called Red, was written to honour our Muslim brothers and sisters. It's simple evocative message is a powerful reminder, that irrespective of our culture, ethnicity and religion we are all equal, and our blood is red. Paradoxically that is most evident when we bleed.
New Zealanders have tended to be understandably partisan, and even a bit myopic, when it comes to remembering Anzac Day.
We invariably highlight our losses and the trauma World War I had upon us, along with the scaring ramifications.