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Editorial November 2009

November 19, 2009

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Before we enter into the hurly-burly of Christmas and New Year it is telling to stop and remember those who fought to give us the freedoms we enjoy today. There is an appeal for photographs of many of the 800 British military personnel buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in South Korea and others whose final resting place is unknown in that forgotten war of the 1950s. (see page 24) This is not nostalgia at work. It is giving honour where honour is due. These pictures of someone’s son, brother, father, loved one will be placed in the Hall of Remembrance and attached to each man’s records kept there. But all of this work is being done by volunteers.- men who fought alongside these valiant soldiers, sailors and airmen. Now in their retiral years the volunteers toil to pay thanks for the sacrifice of their comrades.

And of course, the sacrifice doesn’t end there. It continues today. We still have troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and they are dying almost daily for a cause that is a little more difficult to understand than the Korean conflict. We still take justifiable pride in building warships on the Clyde to keep ‘Her Majesty’s enemies at bay,’ as one senior Royal Navy officer told the LOCAL NEWS. It also keeps the local economy afloat.

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