BADGES? We don’t need no stinking badges!

Today, I would like readers to consider three letters published in the Advertiser of June 29.

The first letter from Dr Bob Roberts — ‘Memorial thoughts’ — ‘to hear the Last Post’’. Where has he been since 1995?

Although his letter is well written — the point was clearly made.

It is only a few months away that ‘the world’ will consider collectively the 100th year marking the end of the Great War. His observations are well penned albeit old hat eg: why is the cenotaph not where it should be ie in front of the Guildhall? Viz. PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) that many modern-day servicemen suffer with, as reported often in the nationals; many committing suicide — which made me think just how many of the trench soldiers committed suicide during and after witnessing the slaughter in the mud of 1914/18, as PTSD was not known then?

The second letter from Ron Wood — ‘Farewell Squires’.

In his first paragraph I see Ian Carr has got his Mighty Bloated Ego (MBE) medal. In my opinion Cllr Carr should be stripped of the accolade forthwith as his objections to return the WWI epitaph to the fallen has been well ‘voiced’ on these very pages since 1995 when yours truly first brought this subject matter, not least, to the local public — no going back now, big boy.

The third letter from another TVBC councillor Graham Stallard — ‘Gone green’.

Gone yellow is more like it, methinks.

Russell Tarrant, Jellicoe Court, Admirals Way, Andover.