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Knocking on someone's door to tell them someone close to them has died - possibly a husband, wife or child - is one of the most difficult jobs the police do. In the Metropolitan Police it was called a 'death message'.
Teaching looks a hard job to me and I have great respect for what they do - but I fear that some teachers would end up abandoning children who have more challenges in their lives and a second class qualification may well give them an easier way of doing that.
Celebrating the mass bombing of German cities during the Second World War would be obscene but not recognising and remembering the 55,573 aircrew killed out of a total of 125,000 that flew would be a betrayal of people who were asked to take great risks on our behalf.
