Like many I am conflicted about the memorial to Bomber Command in Hyde Park. A cousin in the RAF was shot down and died, his plane and his body never found, but my father, imprisoned for three years in Germany, was sent in to search the rubble of Dresden for the countless broken bodies left by our own ruthless assault. Perhaps instead we should have a memorial to all the powerless people who become victims of war by an accident of birth, a memorial to remind us that, in war, everyone loses.

Alison Pierce
Pembroke