Perhaps readers would like to share the thoughts of an 81-year-old friend of mine.

Visiting her on Monday it was obvious she had been crying.

"Oh Judy!" she said, "what a lovely, emotional day I had on Sunday watching all the coverage of the D-Day programmes. If only the younger generation could realise that these men and women died in order that they could live in freedom.

"If only they could show all the television coverage of D-Day at football stadiums then it might make would-be football hooligans realise that these brave men and women were fighting for their country and not for the sheer violence of it."

-Mrs J Reid, Brighton