Members of the Royal British Legion's Llangollen branch held a short ceremony in Centenary Square this morning (Friday) to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when the Second World war officially came to an end on August 15 1945.
Before the traditional two minutes' silence at 11am came the reading of the famous passage from For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon: "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them."
The ceremony, held in brilliant sunlight, ended with the well-known verse from the Kohima Epitaph: "When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow, we gave our today".
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