War Memorial
To the north of the Community Centre stands the North Lewis War Memorial. Three panels bear the names of men from Borve, Galson, Shader, and Ballantrushal who were killed in the two World Wars and the Iolaire Disaster of 1919. The memorial also records one casualty of the Boer Wars.
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Famous quotes containing the words war and/or memorial:
“... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for one’s own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have given themselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)