Not for nothing
I FEEL that G M Philips' letter (Moral Courage, October 29) commands some kind of response, which is why I suppose you printed it.
I thought it was an opportunity to remember the reason why we have poppy day in this free country. In the First World War, 16 million people were reported dead, of whom 9.7 million were soliders. In the Second World War, 70 million people died; 25 million of those were soliders.
Since those wars, 2,755 British soliders have given their lives for Queen and country: Korea: 765, Northern Ireland: 719, Malaya: 340, The Falklands: 255, Palestine: 233, Cyprus: 105, Aden: 68, Egypt: 54, Balkans: 48, The Gulf: 47, Yangtse River: 46, Oman & Dhofar: 24, Suez: 22, Borneo: 16, Kenya: 12, Sierra Leone: 1.
I suppose we will never know what we have achieved, but the millions of people that have had to live their lives since these deaths probably do not share the point of G M Philips, and do not believe it was all for nothing.
Poppy day is about remembering these people, not those who disagreed.
LINDA THORNTON
Highbury Way
Great Cornard
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