Heart-wrenching moment teary Sunrise hosts break down after watching emotional Anzac Day segment – while massive queues form outside pubs

Sunrise hosts Monique Wright and Michael Usher have teared up following an emotional segment about the Anzac Day soldiers.

More than 102,000 Australians have died in wars and operations since federation, including in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Many of the men were just out of high school when they volunteered or were called up to serve, with the impacts continued to be felt for generations.

‘Goodness me it’s hard not to get… just think about you know all of the kids that grew up without dads, and even when the dads came back, the horrors that they brought back from war, and those of us who are raising young men, you know, how very different life,’ Monique said as she fought back tears.

Michael continued: ‘Oh that dear lady who, I think that’s the bit that got me where she said, you know, for the men who never came home, for the generation we lost, and I think the beautiful archived vision of all the old marches and all those faces that are now gone and, I certainly saw a gentleman in there that looked identical to my grandfather. They were men that, you know, went away and for so long.

‘In families, didn’t really want to talk about what they went through, it was hard to get the stories out of them, but, I certainly know with my grandfather every Anzac Day, there was a, a rollercoaster of emotion during the day where he, he didn’t want to go and it was reluctant, but when he was with his, his coppers, his mates, the stories came out and then he was proud and proud for all of us as a family around him.’

Monique said it was OK for Australians to feel sad on Anzac Day.

‘It’s OK for us to be sad today and to remember that’s the least we can do,’ she said.