Tomorrow, it's Liberation Day...

... but today, we remember those who died in the process of liberating.

Flight Sergeant Tom Atkinson, 22
Sergeant Chris Marshall, 28
Sergeant Jim Hall, 20
Sergeant Frank Jay, 20
Sergeant Alwyn Jones, 21
Sergeant Stewart Kerr,
Flight Sergeant John Lea, 26
Sergeant Gerald Lightley, 24
Flight Lieutenant Guy Benedict,
Flight Sergeant Grahame Musitano, 20
Flight Lieutenant Charles Petley, 23
Officer Colin Watley, 27
Sergeant Josh Wilson, 25

all RAF men shot down here in 1941 - 1943

and (on the right)
Marc Harders, son of the village, friend of daughter TJ, killed in Afghanistan. 2010.

What a loss, what a grief, what a waste.