SIR - One of the penalties of getting old, I believe, is that everything is based these days on youth, or at least, on a generation below mine.

I wonder now if people of my generation, born in the early 1920s, note this phenomenon?

However, what I write about is something I find sad, and that is that the anniversary of the D-Day landing in 1944 passed this year without my seeing even one mention in the press or on TV of this event.

So much fuss is being made of the Falklands conflict at this time that I sit and watch in amazement.

Yes, it was a job well done in a difficult situation, and I take my hat off to our boys, but 255 died against the thousands in 1944, both fighting for freedom.

My friends involved in that first conflict, looking down at this time, will be upset, I am sure, and wonder why they bothered.

Ewen Hentall, Testlands Avenue, Nursling.