Quite a nice morning, with fewer showers than
yesterday. A nip in the air after an overnight low of 5C / 41F, but
we've since gone up to 14C / 57F, so no complaints. We'll get the best
weather in the country tomorrow. Whilst hurricane Marie is headed steadily for category V
status in the Eastern Pacific, surrounded by the remnants of Lowell and
a decaying Karina - which nobody mentions, a huge fuss is being made
over another sloppy tropical storm (Cristobal) over the Turks &
Caicos Islands, southeast of the Bahamas. Granted, 4 to 12 inches of
rain is not to be laughed at, but we in the Outer Hebrides get far worse
winds in winter.
The downing of flight #MH17
continues to reverberate, even in the communities in Holland where I am
from. A girl of 12, who was killed along with her family, is to be
commemorated by her classmates in a local secondary school; a family
from another town, 12 miles up the road, was also wiped out. Nearly 200
Dutch people were killed when MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on
July 17th. More than half of the victims have been identified, and the
remains of those from other countries have been repatriated after
identification.
I'm
taking another look at the panels on the Lewis War Memorial. There are
23 panels, with about 1150 names from WW1 and about 450 from WW2. I'll
endeavour to match names to the ones I have on my tribute sites. The
stories behind those names are being gathered by the likes of Comunn Eachdraidh Nis
(Ness Historical Society), thereby bringing them back to life. Many's a
time I was putting portraits on my Faces from the Lewis War Memorial
site and people looking over my shoulder thought they recognised a face -
as someone they know today. Having the stories will bring them back to
life closer to home.
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