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David's Diary
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St George's day event
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Peace on earth

A good crowd turned out to honour the dead of two world wars and all the conflicts since in our Town Square on Remembrance Sunday. The weather was kind as the light rain cleared just before the ceremony. Major Stenton this year came in his civvies as he had handed command to Sergeant Zoe Luke. We also had the services of two buglers including Lance Corporal R. Davison. Beverley Palin played the Northumbrian pipes as the wreaths were laid. Rockets set off by the Coastguard marked the two minutes silence at 11.00am. The parade then marched to Trinity Methodist Church where Revd. John Pugh conducted the service.

He told us the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who lived near Misasa Bridge in Hiroshima, Japan. She was only two years old when she became a victim of the atomic bomb. Subsequently, she was diagnosed with leukaemia, which her mother referred to as "an atom bomb disease." She was hospitalized in February 1955 and given, at the most, a year to live. Visiting her in hospital, her best friend Chizuko began folding a piece of golden paper into a paper crane because she believed in an old Japanese saying that anyone who folded 1,000 cranes would be granted a wish.

Though Sadako had plenty of free time she lacked paper so she used medicine wrappings and whatever else she could lay her hands on including contributions from other patients and Chizuko would bring paper from school. In spite of everything she died in October 1955 and her friends raised the money to build a statue to her and all the children who had died as a result of the bombs.

A plaque at the foot of the statue reads ‘This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace in the world.’

Her story continues to inspire millions to hope for lasting peace in the world, our cry and our prayer today is still ‘Peace in the world.’

Vivienne Dalgliesh