THURSDAY, May 26 will come and go like any other day, but is perhaps of more significance this year than most, when there will be the 60 years anniversary celebrations for the Victory in Europe and the Victory over Japan and the end of the Second World War.
The significance of May 26 is that in 1940, Churchill informed the king that only 20 to 30,000 were likely to be brought from Dunkirk. In response, King George VI called for a National Day of Prayer, to which hundreds of thousands of people responded.
Over 300,000 were rescued from the beaches, and brought safely across exceptionally calm seas. It was miraculous.
Today's widespread distress, fear, disenchantment and lawlessness needs some massive response, which no General Election pack of promises can truly equal. A National Day of Prayer for the Nation is long overdue. May 26 perhaps?
Tony Pelton,
High Green,
Catterick,
North Yorkshire.
Updated: 09:38 Monday, April 04, 2005
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