Sir, John F. Fallon (May 25th) makes a plea for "a well deserved rest from reports of all commemorations of events involving armed conflict for the rest of the millennium,
The year 2000, the last year of" this decade, of this century and of this millennium, will mark the 60th anniversary of aggression against the following Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Lithuania Latvia and Estonia. Is your correspondent suggesting that reports of commemorations of these anniversaries, even while witnesses of these and subsequent events are still alive, should no longer be available?
April 1940 was the month when some 15,000 Polish officers were murdered tit Katyn forest and elsewhere. After decades of lying about her involvement, Russia, in the last phase of Soviet administration, made an open ad mission of responsibility for this, crime of mass murder. Only since then have relatives and friends been able to travel freely to Katyn forest to honour their loved ones on the site of the mass graves.
Let us hear more of the Polish nation's armed struggle in all phases of the second World War, and on all major battlefields against the Hitlerites. And let us hear about the part that Irishmen played, however modest or minimal, serving in foreign armed forces, in ridding the continent of this scourge. Yours, etc. Meadowgrove, Blackrock, Cork.