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Veterans will pay respects at West Lothian Korean War Memorial this weekend for final time

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by local Korean War veteran Adam Mackenzie. Members of the public are also invited to pay their respects at the unique memorial.Scottish soldiers from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, the Black Watch and the local regiment, the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, fought with United Nations troops and the US forces against communists and Chinese troops on the Korean peninsula between 1950 and 1953.The war was fought to stalemate and an armistice divides the peninsula along the 38th Parallel to this day.The memorial, pictured, was created at Witchcraig Wood in the Bathgate Hills by the Lothians and West of Scotland branch of the British Korean Veterans Association in 1994, supported by the then Linlithgow MP Tam Dalyell, himself a Korean.

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