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Thank you.
Jean Grigsby
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Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 9:01 AM
Subject: Remembrance
Earlier today I was at the opening of the Field of
Remembrance at Westminster Abbey. I attended as Secretary of the London
Section of The Royal Scots Association, which has associations with the
Clan. It was a simple and moving ceremony with the Queen Mother's place
taken by the Duke of Kent. Practically every Regiment and Corps was
represented, and the Commonwealth Nations as well. There were many
veterans whose faces and expressions told of the sacrifice
remembered. Our life would not be as we know it but for many young lives
lost in the defence of freedom. The many individual crosses of
remembrance each tell a story of courage and loss.
I will be posting
photographs at The Royal Scots Association London Section website http://members.tripod.co.uk/RoyalsLS/ in the Remembrance
section (there are photographs there from last year). We will be
back on the 11th in greater numbers for our Section's annual cross planting
ceremony, where our piper will play "The Flowers of the
Forest".
I would recommend a visit to The Royal British Legion
(the ex Service Charity) site, http://www.britishlegion.orguk and its
associated site http://www.poppy.org.uk/ where you can download a Poppy
Screensaver, and accompany the appeal for 2 minutes World Silence for the
fallen.
It is an interesting reflection that in only one year since
1945 were there no British servicemen killed in action and they are currently
serving in 28 conflicts around the World. And it is impossible to
conceive of victory in 1945 without the Commonwealth and US servicemen, most
of whom lie in war cemeteries around the World, many where they fell, in row
upon row of white stones whose beauty and symmetry simply astound us today
with their numbers.
Lest we forget.
Yours aye
Iain
Laird
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