Video will play in Play now Don't auto playNever auto playThe Americans do memorials better than most, probably because as the world's policemen they have more to remember. It's certainly a place where you reflect on the wasted lives and most of us remember exactly what we were doing when the terrorist hijacked jetliners struck. Yesterday our nation paused just before one o'clock when many of us remembered what we were doing when the Christchurch earthquake struck on February 22nd, 2001. I was walking along Wellington's Lambton Quay to get lunch when a friend phoned telling me Christchurch had been struck by another earthquake and I quipped that earthquakes were so last year. There are of course war memorials dotted all over our country where we remember the fallen every ANZAC Day and now we have the poignant Memorial Wall in Christchurch to remember those who perished during the devastating earthquake six years ago.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 22, 2017 23:15 UTC