Yes, R Banham is right to say that many thousands of people have ‘sacrificed their lives to retain our freedoms’. But what ‘freedoms’ is he referring to? The freedom to eat or not to eat, the freedom to work or not to work, the freedom to consume – to buy stuff that most of us can do without? Are those the ‘freedoms’ he refers to? If so, then those freedoms he appears to be so enamoured with, are nothing more than a ‘will of the wisp’. Does it really matter which way a poppy is worn? Either wear a poppy or not. Why advertise the fact that you care.

Andrew Martin, Abbotsbury Road, Weymouth