I just don't begin to understand your comments GG54. My father was a navigator in Bomber Command, shot down and killed on his second mission just before Xmas, 5 weeks before I was born, aged 28. (The rear gunner was 18) Although my mother married again,very happily, sadly no more children, I know that she never forgot him, and the manner of his death haunted her all her life. As an adult I witnessed her tears on the odd occasions that she talked about him. Believe you me, that is extremely distressing! He is buried in Holland and with the help of a Dutch archivist I have been able to put together what happened that night, where he is buried, the crash site,the name of the night flyer that brought them down, and, together with DH and my son, visit his grave. Nobody is "wheeling" anybody out as you so crassly put it! and if you really feel that honouring those alive and dead who gave their young lives in order that people like you can just totally disregard their sacrifice to the point of shoving it into the past as if it never happened, then tbh I feel incredibly sorry for you. Insensitive doesn't begin to describe your attitude.