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News Release 11th November 2007COMMENTS ON REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY AT THE ARMED FORCES MEMORIALCommenting on the ceremony held this morning (Sunday 11th November) at the Armed Forces Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum near Lichfield in Staffordshire, Michael Fabricant says: "This was one of the most moving Remembrance ceremonies I have ever attended. At 11am, the sun suddenly shone and cast a vivid shaft of light through slits in the two outer walls of the Memorial and illuminated the wreath at the centre. But it was later when a family all in tears - an older lady, a mother, and two young children - laid a wreath on behalf of a recently fallen son, husband and father that many of us felt the most moved. I saw tears running down the face of a senior naval officer. "I believe that in the years to come, when personal memories of the Great War and the Second World War inevitably fade, the new Armed Forces Memorial will become the national centrepiece for Remembrance. Its commanding position over the southern Staffordshire plain, its location at the centre of our nation, and its mission to commemorate fallen servicemen since 1945 will bring a personal dimension to the Act of Remembrance which is no longer so alive at the Cenotaph in Whitehall." |
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