Wrth imi siarad â rhai o’r cyn-filwyr dros y ffôn a thrwy alwadau fideo, cefais fy nharo gan y cyfraniad anhygoel a wnaeth pobl o Gymru i’r ymdrech genedlaethol honno. Gwasanaethodd Edna Leon o Wrecsam fel cogydd, gan gadw’r ymdrech ryfel ar fynd; gwasanaethodd Walford Hughes o Aberystwyth yn ymgyrch y Dwyrain Pell, a chefnogodd y Burma Star Association am flynyddoedd ar ôl rhoi’r gorau i wasanaethu; ac roedd Gordon Prime o Ddoc Penfro yn negesydd brys. Maent yn enghreifftiau perffaith o unigolion sy’n rhoi eu dyletswyddau gwasanaethu o flaen eu hanghenion eu hunain.
As I spoke to some of the veterans via telephone and video calls, I was struck by the amazing contributions people from Wales made to that national effort. Edna Leon, from Wrexham served as a chef, keeping the war effort going; Walford Hughes, from Aberystwyth, served in the Far East campaign and supported the Burma Star Association long after his service; and Gordon Prime from Pembroke Dock, was a motorcycle dispatch rider. They are the epitome of ‘service not self’.