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Remembrance Sunday 2005
10/10/2005
Her Majesty the Queen has decided that November 13 shall be observed as Remembrance Sunday. The customary Two Minutes' silence will be observed at 1100.
The Moderator of the General Assembly to the Church of Scotland, the Right Reverend David W Lacy, has issued the following message:
"At Remembrance-tide, we go deeper than the victory commemorations of this year. We don't think about winners and losers. We look back and remember far more.
"We look back with sorrow, remembering how evil war is, no matter what side you're on. Human sin can lead to that. If we remember with sorrow, it will breed penitence in us.
"We look back with thanksgiving, paying tribute to those who gave their lives so sadly and wastefully, but so enduringly in a way that still lives on in the lives and memories of so many.
"Yes, let's remember them with thanks, each one of them loved and treasured by someone, each one of them loved and treasured by God, and each one dying to pay the price which must be inevitably paid when the world lets evil hold sway."