RAF Bomber Command memorial

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/3agqkbo

So German politicians have called on Britain to abandon plans to build a memorial to RAF bomber crews.

Why are the British always being asked to apologise?

We lost 55,573 RAF bomber crew personal, in WW2, so it is deserving that a memorial is created in our capital, to remember these brave airmen who set out each night to fly the skies of Europe..

Yes 45,000 innocent German civilians lost their lives in Hamburg alone, and another 25,000 - 35,000 in Dresden during WW2, but 20,083 Londoners, plus 23,602 in other parts of Britain were killed in the Blitz itself.

This was war, and after all the Germans started bombing civilians..

[jolly1]

War is a terrible thing, but to lose the war would have been a tragedy for all humanity. These men contributed as much as any, to freedoms victory.
To plagiarise a saying I heard many years ago "if it closed Auschwitz then it was justified".
We as a nation should hang our heads in shame that we have taken so long to recognise what was extraordinarily brave contribution to keeping freedom alive.
Lest we forget the price of freedom