Tomorrow's Anzac Day services across the nation will carry more significance than ever before.
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Being the centenary of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli, it will be an emotional time for many attending services in the region.
Some will be descendants of diggers who fought at Gallipoli and either died there or lived to tell their story to future generations. Others will have loved ones still involved in conflict and some will have lost loved ones in these conflicts.
Regardless of the circumstances, tomorrow will be an emotion-filled day for all.
It seems in recent years we have only started to learn more about what actually occurred at Gallipoli.
For decades, there was little information available and the diggers who returned home had a reluctance to talk about what they had seen or experienced.
Their diaries were tucked away in a drawer along with photographs and service medals, which only emerged when the diggers marched each Anzac Day or Remembrance Day.
However, now the stories that have been told in these diaries, letters home and in photographs are being shared among not only adults, but our younger generations who appear to have a healthy hunger for more information about the Great War.
It is probably this hunger that has led to descendants themselves taking more interest and digging out the diaries and letters. It has resulted in many stories emerging that may have otherwise been kept secret.
The weeks and even months leading up to Anzac Day have seen our televisions and newspapers filled with these stories - Stories that do ignite the emotions, but at the same time prepare us for what is going to be one of this nation's most memorable days.
Many Stawell and district residents have already shared their stories about descendants who fought in the Great War.
One descendant, Cameron Bowman, has been fortunate enough to be chosen to travel to Gallipoli for the centenary commemoration tomorrow.
For the Stawell Secondary College student, it will be an experience he will never forget, standing on the very hilltops where the diggers fought and lost their lives and also taking part in the emotional dawn service.
Residents back home are also being encouraged to attend the dawn service tomorrow at the cenotaph from 6am. This will be followed by a service at Great Western, before returned servicemen and women, widows and other members of the community gather again at the Stawell cenotaph for the 11am service.
It will be a day to reflect, celebrate, mourn and it will be filled with emotion for sure. Lest We Forget.