Coral Sea Commemoration Service 2002

 held at Adelaide Botanic Gardens
Sunday 5th May 2002
10.00 am

OUR FINEST HOUR

CORAL SEA: In May 1942 the rampant Japanese tried to isolate Australia by seizing Port
Moresby and other Pacific outposts, but the invasion force was intercepted by a joint
US-Australian fleet. Aircraft carriers on both sides were sunk and damaged, the Japanese
withdrawing in a vital strategic victory for the Allies.

Coral Sea Commemoration Service
held at Adelaide Botanic Gardens
Sunday 5th May 2002
10.00 am

WELCOME by Senior Vice President of the Australian American Association, Ms Rosemary Miller.

COMMEMORATION PRAYER - Reverend Carl Aiken

PRESENTATION OF WREATHS

COMMEMORATION ADDRESS AND PRIME MINISTER HOWARD'S MESSAGE - Commander John Parkin, Senior Naval Officer, South Australia

PRESIDENT BUSH'S MESSAGE - Mrs Rosemary Hansen, Administrative Counsellor at the American Embassy Canberra 

LORD'S PRAYER - said by all - led by Reverend Carl Aiken

SCRIPTURE READING - Reverend Carl Aiken

THE ALERT

THE LAST POST - followed by 1 minutes silence

THE ODE - Mr Ollie Ashenden, State Vice President RSL

REVEILLE

LEST WE FORGET

THE NAVY HYMN - Eternal Father

Eternal Father, strong to save
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep:
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.

Lord, guard and guide the men who fly
Through the great spaces in the sky,
Be with them always in the air,
In dark'ning storms or sunlight fair :
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.

O Holy Spirit, who did'st brood
Upon the waters dark and rude,
And bid their angry tumult cease
And give, for wild confusion peace:
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM

AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM

BLESSING - Reverend Carl Aiken

South Australian Naval Band under the direction of 
Chief Petty Officer Doug Antonoff
provided the music