Let’s Celebrate Armed Forces Day
This Saturday is an important day for Wales and the UK.
It is our chance to celebrate the bravery and sacrifice of the men and women who serve in our armed forces.
Armed Forces Day 2010 is is being celebrated in Cardiff so that the country will be able to honour the men and women who make up the Armed Forces community: from currently serving troops to Service families, and from veterans to recruits. The day is meant to be a celebration, in contrast with the more sombre Remembrance Sunday Parades and Armistice Day observances.
On Saturday civilian men and women will show our appreciation of those members of the armed forces that put their lives on the line every day for this country.
It will allow us the opportunity to give a heartfelt thanks for all those families who support fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters to serve their country on the frontline. It’s also an opportunity to show our solidarity with those families who have suffered losses in recent operations.
The families of our service men and women are the backbone of the British Armed Forces, it is right that we should remember them and their contribution in particular on this day.