Rest In Peace

[Rev I. Tin]

From The Telegraph


Second World War airmen 'missing for 60 years' finally buried (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=E4CGU1CZBD2MVQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2006/08/31/ubombers.xml)

I salute you.

[airborne_artist]

Good to see that the RAF were getting aircraft up for this. I expect the Dutch will also have done them proud; they have long and accurate memories of the UK Armed Forces' efforts in WW2.

[A2QFI]

I was at Laabruch on the 50th Remembrance Day after the end end of WWII. The Dutch had a child with a flower at EVERY war grave in the Netherlands, for the service. An enormous undertaking and very well done!

[Samuel]

Amazingly, some relatives from New Zealand, including a niece, attended the service.

Well done Holland.

[Scoggy]

"Pilot: Flight Sergeant Hugh Barton-Smith, 26, a chemist from Sutton Coldfield

Navigator: Flight Sergeant Kenneth Wakefield, 20, a clerk born in Derby

Air bomber: Sergeant Leonard Moss, 28, from New Zealand

Flight engineer: Sergeant John Victor Robinson, 23, whose service record lists him as a "scholar" before joining up

Wireless operator: Sergeant Peter Sharman, 20, a clerk from Liverpool

Mid upper gunner: Flight Sergeant Edward Frederick Talbot, 30, a milkman from London

Rear Gunner: Flight Sergeant Glen Allen Smith, 24, from New Zealand"

Gentlemen, thank-you for your sacrifice. You died so I can sit here and type this without looking over my shoulder.

Rest easy.

[microlight AV8R]

Scroggy, very nicely put my friend.

Couldn't have phrased it better myself.

RIP you brave souls.

[glum]

Thank you one and all.

May we meet our current foe with the same bravery.