I wasn't appalled at the "lack of organisation" at the Old Steine cenotaph for Remembrance Sunday ("Messterpiece", Letters, November 14).

What "Name and address supplied" didn't notice was the rapt attention given to

the proceedings by hundreds of fellow citizens paying their respects to the fallen.

The photographer he seems to have spent a great deal of time watching was as discreet as humanly possible while recording the service, presumably for highlights to be shown locally to people who couldn't attend.

The master of ceremonies did a sterling job, being in the public eye at an important event and not being professionally trained for the duties. The one aside he did make, overheard by the crowd, concerned the end of the wreath-laying and received a giggle, certainly from my part of the crowd.

Being at the end of the whole service, it hardly mattered.

The point about the hymn sheets is correct, though - I didn't have one either.

If this correspondent can't attend such occasions in the right frame of mind, I suggest he or she doesn't attend at all. By the way, I am not Colonel Blimp. I am an average forty-something imbued with some respect.

-Terry Hunter, Lower Rock Gardens, Brighton