Thu, Nov 17, 2005 - Page 4 News List

British airmen can finally rest in peace

NOT FORGOTTEN Fourteen RAF airmen who were killed 50 years ago when their plane crashed in Taiwan were commemorated this week after three years of hard work

By Chang Yun-ping  /  STAFF REPORTER

However, Coy said that now there is a different mood in the country, with demands that all sacrifices which were not marked at the time be commemorated in some way.

The memorial was erected on Monday at the public cemetery tower, overlooking the crash site on Mt. Yuli.

Marsh and Coy laid poppy wreaths at the memorial and carried out a remembrance service as practiced on Remembrance Sunday by churches across the UK.

"We remember with thanks and sorrow all those whose lives have been given and taken away in world wars and conflicts past and present," Coy said in his remembrance passage, concluding the work that helped the lost airmen to finally rest in peace.

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