10:00am Thursday 29th July 2010
I FEEL I must add my thoughts to the debate about Joe Glenton, the army deserter who I personally call a coward.
When he signed up, what did he think, that he would always be in this country?
In the last war, I joined up voluntarily at St Giles Army Office. I did not have to, as I was only seventeen-and-a-half years old at the time. I knew what I was signing up for – as did the others.
I joined the parachute regiment, and left four years later.
Believe me, all of us, when we made our first jump, were scared but never bottled out.
I can hardly believe what he says about having 200 letters a day supporting him, and some from ex-servicemen.
Thank goodness he wasn’t in the First World War; he would have been shot!
I’m now in my 80s, and when I think back on all the thousands who died, my only word for him is – coward.
That may be why he left the country to live in Australia.
C BENNETT, Eastern House, Littlemore, Oxford
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