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| Events are due to be held across Scotland to remember servicemen and women who have been killed in past and current conflicts. | Events are due to be held across Scotland to remember servicemen and women who have been killed in past and current conflicts. |
| First Minister Alex Salmond will give a reading at St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, and will lay a wreath at the Stone of Remembrance. | |
| At 1100 GMT, two-minute silences will be held at services across the country. | At 1100 GMT, two-minute silences will be held at services across the country. |
| Black Watch soldiers who have just returned from Afghanistan will be holding their own service. | Black Watch soldiers who have just returned from Afghanistan will be holding their own service. |
| The service, at Fort George near Inverness, will remember the five soldiers who died during the seven-month tour of Afghanistan. | |
| George Ross, acting general secretary of the Royal British Legion Scotland, said: "We are proud to play our part in helping the nation pay their respects." | |
| 'Distraught families' | |
| In Aberdeen, a parade of former soldiers and members of the armed forces will start at 1040 GMT at Belmont Street and end at the war memorial where wreaths will be placed. The parade will be led by the Grampian Police Pipe Band. | |
| A church service will also be held in the Kirk of St Nicholas. | |
| Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott is planning to attend the Remembrance Service at the Shetland War Memorial at Hillhead in Lerwick while Iain Gray will be laying a wreath in his Dunbar constituency. | Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott is planning to attend the Remembrance Service at the Shetland War Memorial at Hillhead in Lerwick while Iain Gray will be laying a wreath in his Dunbar constituency. |
| Rt Rev William Hewitt, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, said: "The reality of war hits home particularly this year when we learn of members of our armed forces who have lost their lives, or who have been severely injured in recent combats. | Rt Rev William Hewitt, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, said: "The reality of war hits home particularly this year when we learn of members of our armed forces who have lost their lives, or who have been severely injured in recent combats. |
| "We see pictures of distraught families and whole communities receiving their loved ones back home and we cannot help but be touched by it. | "We see pictures of distraught families and whole communities receiving their loved ones back home and we cannot help but be touched by it. |
| "Remembrance Sunday is a day not only to remember people, some of them close to us, who lost their lives defending their country, but it is also a time of reflection and allows us to think how it is that wars are still happening around the world today." | "Remembrance Sunday is a day not only to remember people, some of them close to us, who lost their lives defending their country, but it is also a time of reflection and allows us to think how it is that wars are still happening around the world today." |