IT is easy to moralise with no personal involvement as does L Spiteri (You Say, August 18)
Like your correspondents F L Jones and D E Margrett, I served in South East Asia Command in the Second World War and can readily identify with the sentiments they express.
Yet my role was that of a non-combatant operating under the strict neutrality of the Red Cross.
It was when we received released prisoners-of-war who were unfit to make the journey home that I began to question the morality of a pacifist approach to the perpetrators of such horror.
And when the inhumanity of the German concentration camps became fully known, I felt a sense of guilt at my failure to take up arms to prevent it.
JOHN HINTON, Worcester.
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