SIR: We wish S R Morgan would think before he makes these rash statements about running down our country. When you have given five years of your life fighting in tanks and seen indescribable horror, then you can talk. For someone to say we think nothing of our country is an inane comment.

That is not to say we are not sad about some of the things that are happening in our country and the wider world. Is it so wrong to want a better world, not just for ourselves but everyone and if only everyone just helped, even a little and felt a little goodwill towards others, then hopefully the new millennium would be worth living for.

A and S E Fenney

Westgate Avenue, Bolton

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