> I have visited this memorial, I am too young to have experienced the
> Battle of Britain but the memorials "presence" is a very emotional and
> chiiling experience.
> I experienced the same thing at the WW1 cemetaries in Arras France, miles
> and miles of headstones and I swear the air is colder there than outside
> the gates.
> Visit the memorial if you can - thinking isnt too bad a thing
>
> mike robson
My wife and I made a similar trip a couple of years ago. As you approach the
British Memorial across the flat landscape you see something like a Cathedral
spire supported on a number of columns. As you approach the columns, about
12 of them each several yards square, you realise they are covered in names,
thousands of them. Moving enough, but the person represented by each one of
those names has no known grave, in other words, they just vanished in the mud
and artillery bombardments.
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