Signing these petitions may not achieve much on the face of it (eg Bomber Command Memorial petition) but is doesn’t do any harm either. It at least shows veterans that there is still an interest in their history and it brings veterans families together (very important). I have seen the effort the French made to build and maintain their Typhoon Memorial. It is very impressive considering that it does not even commemorate their aircraft or their pilots. It is an embarassment that the nearest thing to a Typhoon memorial in the UK is a reconstructed Typhoon supplied by the USA. I can’t see any reason why building memorials would have any adverse effect on the lottery budget. Perhaps less money could be spent on useless “diversity” projects, on educating illegal immigrants or on the bloated 2012 Olympic Money-Pit? If anyone wants to build a Memorial to the Queen Bee or the Vickers Warwick then I wish them luck, I would sign their petition and I hope that they succeed before the relevant veterans are gone (my dad served on Warwicks).