Well said A and C. The one thing that drives the survivors, conscious both of their own longevity and of the approaching and inevitable final curtain is that a proper national memorial to their fallen comrades, who enjoyed such brief lives and suffered all too often terrible and fearful ends, be at last provided. Rather than worry at how this reads in Dresden or for that matter any other German city and town that were their targets night after night from the very beginning to the very end of WW2 in Europe, we would do better to hang our heads in shame at the slight their sacrifice has suffered for some 65 years. 55573 dead and a mere simple stone set in a Cathedral to remember them by. We pride ourselves on our tolerance and understanding but we can also be very hard and very cruel!