I could not agree more with Sue Hodson (Letters, September 17) regarding the dirge that is our national anthem.

I do care about England but admit I am not very much bothered whether God Saves The Queen or otherwise. Maybe someone will commission Andrew Lloyd Webber to compose something more appropriate.

I am, by the way, a 75-year-old ex-serviceman - which raises another point.

We afford our war dead two minutes' silence, so why did it have to be three minutes for the victims in New York?

I feel someone got their priorities wrong somewhere.

-John A Nunn, Eastern Road, Brighton