Lest we forget

clear way and it makes for grim reading (The Scotsman, 10 November).

The hope is that by exposing this reality, influential people will start taking some action, spreading awareness and education that might gradually filter through and make an impact on people worldwide.

Future generations may look back on this as a positive turning-point. has befallen the world since the beginning of time.

I’m just waiting to be told that they are to blame for the Edinburgh trams fiasco, Scotland failing to qualify for the World Cup and the increasing number of snails in my garden! In May 1940 my cousin, a Hurricane pilot, was shot down over France. He lies in a solitary war grave in the village cemetery at Chufilly Roche, population 200, no English spoken, in the Ardennes.

Each November flowers are laid and a minute’s silence observed. They then proceed to a nearby group of German graves and repeat the ceremony. Is there something we could learn from this?

J M CARDER East Forth Street, Anstruther