Trevor Gerdsen reflects on the meaning of adventure for the oldies.
Adventure doesn’t mean you have to be the thrillseeker, extreme sportsperson or risk-taker.
It was ‘the adventure of a lifetime’ – or so the story went for the thousands of healthy young men who flocked to enlist and set off to war in 1914, 1915 and conflicts thereafter.
Now, every April 25, we pause as a nation to reflect on those brave young men and women who followed and how their adventure turned out. For some it was the ultimate sacrifice. For others it was an irreducible memory that often defined them for the rest of their lives.