SIR: In answer to B Howarth (Your Views, BEN Wed April 9) "Conscription's not welcome", I, for my part, enjoyed National Service. However, I do not recommend it to the general public. We were always short of money, food and cigs. I have seen men roll on the floor and fight over food parcels sent from home. We would play football with an old clapped-out Tomlinson leather T-ball that had seen better days long before I ever took a kick at it. If they brought conscription back, in my opinion the problem would be getting the youth of today to turn up for service in the first place. Whatever faults the youth of today may have, they are more enlightened than we ever were more than 40 years ago.
Michael Ryan
Ivy Grove, Kearsley
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