As I watched the Remembrance Services in Normandy last Sunday, the memory of all the friends I lost in the Second World War, young men and women who had everything to live for but gave their lives for the future generations and British way of life, a way of life we see being frittered away in political correctness. But a thought should also be given to the men and women who survived, people who carried on, bearing the burden of living without loved ones, the hardship of the post war years, but living with the hope that the young generation growing up would make it all worthwhile.

Today I recall standing in the council offices pleading for the veterans of the war years, many now in their eighties, to be given free travel passes in line with all the surrounding areas, bearing in mind that we would be become less every year, only to be told that the council had more important things to do with the money available, the same answer we got when asking for a Drop In Centre for the elderly, even though money was already allocated for this project. Fortunately the CAP organisation came to our aid and have supplied a very successful Drop In Centre even though not the custom built one we should have had. Perhaps the council officers and councillors should reflect that if the Nazis had won the war, many of them might not even have been born. I honour my generation, who gave their lives both in the services and at home, and I feel for those of us who grow older every year and are not even considered worth giving free travel in Hertsmere.

D Endacott Pursley Gardens, Borehamwood