I was in your country for my August vacation and had the privilege of being able to visit one of the last surviving Boeing B-17 Superfortresses. Clambering though the insides I was awestruck at what kind of human beings would in the freezing stratosphere pack into such a space with little for protection but a scantling of ammunition to try and break the back of Nazi terror in the only way available to them. An appalling number didn't come home but none ever turned back in fear.

These were ordinary men with dreams of girls, children, futures who didn't want war but when it was forced upon them did the superhuman and saved the world from the darkest of evil.

Now you Americans are forced to do it again and that is all that matters now. I wish you Godspeed.