bomber command

[dinorock]

its about time they honoured ALL the members of the armed forces, i took this last year at a custom motorbike and car show the owner said then that there was no memorial. so hopefully he,s very happy now (happys not the right word but you know what i mean)


_MJR5659.jpg by Mike Rockey, on Flickr
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM


sorry about the size ooops hav'nt changed the upload settings in lightroom4

 

[seroposi]

+1

 

[Bristolian]

Something like this?

http://www.thenma.org.uk/

 

[Alastair]

its about time they honoured ALL the members of the armed forces,

As far as I am aware the Cenotaph in Whitehall is dedicated to "The Glorious Dead". It's a single point of focus for the memory of every member of the armed services - much like town and village war memorials.

It puzzles me as to why groups feel the need to be identified seperately? - I can't think of a positive reason.

 

[dinorock]

As far as I am aware the Cenotaph in Whitehall is dedicated to "The Glorious Dead". It's a single point of focus for the memory of every member of the armed services - much like town and village war memorials.

It puzzles me as to why groups feel the need to be identified seperately? - I can't think of a positive reason.

The reason bomber command didn't get any recognition was because by the very nature of there work a lot of civilians died during the bomb runs, as many factories in germany were close to towns. our own government decided many years ago to just pretend it didn't happen!!!! but as you can see from the number of our dead from bomber command it certainly did. i'm ex army and i can understand if your a civilian,you not understanding the need for individual memorials but as an ex soldier the idea of being one of hundreds of thousands is not the same as having been a member of a specific group.paras,artillery, infantry etc.or even sas. Sorry i missed a couple of other posts, steve these like many other war memorials are general memorials to soldiers who fell in the war other regiments have there individual ones and only recently did the government put up a new one for bomber command its a bit like the japs apologising 70 years after the war for the torturing they did of british pow's but thats another story. like i said in the first post IT'S ABOUT TIME.

 

[Bristolian]

... steve these like many other war memorials are general memorials to soldiers who fell in the war ...

I responded to your very first sentence "its about time they honoured ALL the members of the armed forces" and was just pointing out that they already do. The National Military Arboretum honours all servicemen and women from all three services.

Being ex-Army (29 years in total) I understand the feeling that individual units have for individual recognition/memorials. The Army used to rely on the Regimental system (that was when members of a Regiment were recruited from a geographical area rather than just randomly allocated to a Regiment as they currently are) to reinforce esprit de corps, comradeship and discipine. Soldiers felt a great deal of pride in the achievements of their Regiment and expected that to be recognised. It must be hard for a non-military person to understand that but it's a very fierce emotion for an ex-service person.

Okay, I'll put my soap box away now