I WAS, of course, pleased to read in your pages that children had floated lanterns down the river to commemorate the end of the Second World War and the Hiroshima bombing.
I remember this occasion well as I was youth hostelling with my older sister, and we were walking round Christ Church Meadow, towards Folly Bridge, when we heard the news from passers-by that the war had ended!
Two months later I was to go up to Christ Church, when most were returning ex-service men.
But one month later again, as a 17-year old, I qualified for a special one-off banana ration for children, which I duly collected from the Christ Church buttery.
Please continue to commemorate the atomic bombing in Japan, and do not forget the bombing in Europe, eg of Dresden on February 14, 1945.
CHARLES WICKHAM-JONES Frenchay Road Oxford
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