Sheffield Armed Forces and Veterans Day

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00:00Good morning, Martin Cohen, South Yorkshire Police. We're here today, we've got a selection

00:07of us, police officers, specials and cadets to help the council to celebrate Armed Forces

00:13Day. Hugely important for the police that we're represented here to help with the engagement

00:19with the council and also to support the veterans that ultimately their efforts mean that we

00:26can be here to celebrate this today openly as we do.

00:32It's Veterans Day today here in Sheffield and we've had the most wonderful day. I've

00:37spent the morning chatting to a lot of our veterans and our cadets and then the most

00:42moving service with wonderful speeches from Councillor Fox, our veterans champion and

00:49Pat Davey and it's a real privilege and an honour to be able to pay tribute to those

00:55who gave their lives and who served and to actually look forward to the future.

01:04Hello I'm Councillor Denise Fox, the veterans champion and we're here today to celebrate

01:10the Armed Forces Veterans Day. We've had a fantastic turnout, it's been a lovely sunny

01:16day and we've had lots of cadets and army reservists joining us and we've had some vehicles

01:24from the parachute regiment and it's great and we should never forget what they've done

01:29for us, the armed forces and services are forever in their debt and we should come along

01:39and celebrate this day and next year hopefully we'll have a bigger and better day because

01:43it's going to be celebrating the end of the war, 80 years since the end of the war.

01:50Come along and join us, thank you.

01:53I'm Pat Davey, I'm the Chairman of the Joint Council of Ex-Service Associations and I'm

02:02here today because of Armed Forces Day. We have had a wonderful turnout of ex-servicemen

02:12and women and that is right, we've also had a lot of the public and we owe to those

02:20men and women who fought, particularly 80 years ago this year, we owe our freedom and

02:29our lives and it behoves all of us to remember the great gift that they gave to us, our country

02:37back, our freedom and the power to grow up out of fear, away from fear and to not have

02:49to look over our shoulder all the time as to where the enemy is.