 Hello. On Saturday 15 August 1945, Japanese radio broadcast a recording of Emperor Hirohito's message, conceding defeat, and effectively ending the Second World War. For some of us, the war in the East may seem a distant thing. But the Forgotten Army was recruited from East Anglia, so many people from South Cambridgeshire were involved in our forces there. Many suffered the horrors of Japanese concentration camps. We must remember too the horrors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th of August, in which Britain was complicit. The ending of war is a good thing, whatever we may think of the abominations which it entailed. So I ask you to observe a silence, as I shall, on Saturday, to remember. And I ask you perhaps to pause now for a moment, maybe to think of the words of the Kohima Epitaph. When you go home, tell them of us, and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today. Thank you.