It seems that people seem to think that because you are ex-service that you get a pension, I should like to put the books straight. If you did your time before 1975 you don't get a penny, and defence minister Derek Mr Twigg says he and the government will make sure we won't.

Well Mr Twigg you are out of your tree, a different branch altogether, we will carry on trying to get our just rewards.

There are those amongst our dwindling group who served in the 1939-45 war and get nothing. In a few months time it will be 11 November, 95 per cent of these men and women unless injured get no pension for their efforts, and will be forgotten again on the November 12. Yet Mr Brown can give millions away to non-British people and says he can not afford to give British ex-service people anything. We don't want it back dating, just to start now.

Mr Mr Twiggsaid that if we got it, others would want it. I ask Mr Mr Twigg and his like mended men, how can you equate an ex-service person with any other job?

Make power to your elbow, and push for their benefits, as there will be more strings attached to them than a classical harp!

MR P MOSS, Oakwood, Leeds.