I have always had great admiration for the members of Bomber Command, even as a child. It was strange, therefore, that a few years ago I was reading a book which gave the name of one of my mathematics teachers that I respected the most (back in the mid 1960s). It also had a photograph in which he had hardly changed between 1939 and 1966. I remember him saying that he had been in the RAF in WWII. What he did not say was that he was shot down on his second tour and became a POW.
I look forward to visiting the new memorial.