Cirrus: I'm also being practical. A memorial just to the crews will inevitably be subject to vandalism.
Then let them vandalise it, because those men died for the right to freedom of expression. If brave thugs throw paint over it, then we shall clean it off and we shall keep cleaning it off. What we must NOT do is allow the mindless antics of a few cretins to dictate how we conduct ourselves.
There is nothing wrong with remembering OUR dead in such a way. Frankly, and this might sound bad, I have no emotional connection with those who died at Dresden. I do have a connection with our lads though, those who clambered into ally tubes each night and left, never to return. However much I wish to god those people hadn't have died, I do not want my act of commemoration to be bundled up like some marketing nerd's wet dream because apparantly, thats how I am
supposed to think.