It is to be hoped that unlike millions of dead, the writer of A Soldier – His Prayer survived the 1939-45 War (Poet’s Corner, The Argus, January 15).
Presumably it was the “God our help in ages past” to whom the soldier’s prayer was addressed. So were the countless prayers for “peace in our time” that were offered during the months before September 1939 and August 1914.
Rather than being “very apt during these times”, as the letter writer David Rowland asserts, the futility of prayer is a matter of historical record, including names on war memorials.
W J McIlroy, Somerhill Road, Hove
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