I'm not normally one for making pilgrimages to war graves, but in a month or so I may make an exception. The trip isn't to anywhere glamorous. It will be to a small, quiet cemetery at Scopwick in Lincolnshire. There are buried a number of Canadian airmen who died during the Second World War while serving at nearby RAF Digby. Each man's sacrifice is marked by one of the uniform white Portland Stone grave markers erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, but one is a little different. It contains the words, "Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth" and "Put out my hand. And touched the face of God."
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