With the help of Guernsey Post's delivery services, the Bailiff Sir Richard Collas has written a letter to all islanders about this year's celebration of the Liberation.
'Dear Fellow Islander,' he writes.
'May 9th is and always will be a very special day for us all.
'This year the 75th anniversary was to have been an extra special celebration which we had been looking forward to and planning for some considerable time.'
He wrote about how the island would have been filled with relatives and friends who live elsewhere who would have returned to join in the festivities.
Although the carnival atmosphere that comes with the Liberation celebrations cannot take place, he said he was grateful to the Education, Sport & Culture committee for their efforts in creating a revised programme that islanders can join in with, while complying with restrictions guided by Public Health.
'We now have a better appreciation of what it meant to islanders to be liberated as we look forward anxiously to the lifting of lockdown,' Sir Richard Collas wrote.
He compared today's contact through the internet with occupied islanders' only contact with the outside world through short, occasional Red Cross messages.
'Those of us who were born after the war ended cannot appreciate what it was like to have suffered nearly five years of occupation and to be near starvation.'
He hoped as a community, islanders would still come together to think of those who saved and liberated us in 1945 and also those who are working to save us now.
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