Strange that it took so long to recognise the sacrifices made by fliers of Bomber Command during World War II.
To say that this delay was due to guilt felt because of the deaths of so many innocent civilians during these raids is naive.
While I have absolute sympathy for the loss of life in this way, the statements relating to this statue have never, as far as I know, mentioned the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people on the ground, in their homes in Britain by the Nazis, with blanket bombing of Landon and similar attacks using VII rockets.
No mention either of the, at least, six million European Jews murdered by the same regime. Let us look at the total picture.

Barry Walker, Mt Maunganui.