'It grieves me that 100 years on nations are still waging war on one another'
A disappointed Rutherglen woman has spoken out over her struggle to have South Lanarkshire Council mark the centenary of the town’s war memorial.
She said: “The cenotaph was built by public subscription but such was the level of poverty in the Royal Burgh after WW1, that fundraising had to be suspended. When the cenotaph was eventually unveiled in 1924, as a focus for the townspeople’s mass grieving, the surrounding streets were thronged with people.
Dorothy added: "It was only when I went to lay my own flowers that I found out that the community council had put up a banner at the cenotaph. Dorothy's other grandfather Valentine Connor, who died just weeks after she was born, had fought with the Irish Guards and was seriously wounded in action at the Somme and was left with a limp for the remainder of his life.
“It grieves me that 100 years on nations are still waging war on one another and that we have children here who are going to school without proper clothing or shoes in the winter, folk queueing up at foodbanks and unable to heat their homes and being told to huddle together in warm banks and going to clothing banks for basic items.She added: “There is no more we can do for them except remember and respect them. We have to look after the living.
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