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This debate has nothing to do with the service of thanksgiving
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From Graeme Le Monnier.
MAY I add my thoughts on Liberation Day. I was 14 years of age at the time and, like your reader Jeff Le Caudey, I was in the Royal Square on 8 May 1945. Yes, the National Anthem was not only played but sung by the huge crowd gathered with tears of joy.
The lowering of the Swastika and the raising of the British flag with the broadcast of Winston Churchill’s words, ‘Our dear Channel Islands are to be freed today,’ was a very emotional moment. All church bells rang out across the Island for several hours and every church and chapel held a service of thanksgiving the same evening.
In 1952 I left Jersey to live in England and over the past 65 years I have made every effort to be home to celebrate Liberation Day. Hopefully, now reaching 79 years of age, I will be home again this year in Liberation Square for the official ceremony and service of thanksgiving.
Sadly, the numbers are dwindling.
In another column of the same edition the Constable of St Clement, Len Norman, said that the debate of a bank holiday on 9 May was nothing to do with Liberation Day. I’m inclined to agree with him.
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