This section will be a space for very brief comments, reflections or photo essays.

As a starting example here is a reflection prompted by a visit to the commemorative site (a photograph from the National Airforce Memorial at Runnymede is included blow) made by Dr Graham Smith (see link), currently Chair of the Oral History Society .

207 Squadron RAF Association - Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede

The long straight walk to the memorial reveals a structure resembling a barracks with a central tower. Through a courtyard, along stone corridors, passing wreaths and letters placed by ageing relatives, friends and comrades, a flight of stairs climbs past windows tall and poetry etched. Climbing past views of a steep drop to the river far below and the site of Magna Carta; climbing on. Then to emerge outside to a skyline that stretches from Windsor Castle to Wembley Stadium; then a growing awareness that little silver arrows are taking off from Heathrow every few seconds; a constant fly-past.

Returning to the ground groups of visitors gather around different points of memory. The older men and women tell stories of the dead - 20,389 with no known grave - and the younger listen. Remembering is transforming into commemoration.