article_snippet: medals to help pay for the upkeep of Britain’s recently built memorial to the 55,573 airmen killed in the war .
article_snippet: Yesterday after the Daily Mail reported the 95-year-old ex-pilot’s gesture, a wave of tributes and offers of donations swept social media and the RAF Benevolent Fund, which is responsible for the £50,000-a-year upkeep of the memorial in London’s Green Park.
article_snippet: Remembered: the Bomber Command Memorial in London is dedicated to the 55,573 airmen and ground staff killed during the Second World War.
article_snippet: the Bomber Command Memorial in London costs £50,000 a year to maintain, and Sqdrn Ldr Munro wants to help pay for the Bomber Command Memorial in London .
article_snippet: ‘out of comradeship’ for the airmen who never came home.
article_snippet: Sqdrn Ldr Munro added it was a ‘travesty’ that the ‘magnificent memorial’ – dedicated to British and Commonwealth airmen and ground crew after a campaign led by the Daily Mail and others – was not unveiled until 2012, more than 67 years after the Second World War ended.
highlights_snippet: Les Munro hopes to raise £50,000 for upkeep of the central London RAF memorial .
  
highlights_snippet: Built to remember 55,573 aircrew and groundstaff who died in WW2 .
  Not finished until 2013 after row with Germany over respect for 55,573 aircrew and groundstaff who died in WW2 dead .
  