SIR,—I think those of your readers who were disturbed by
" Capt. B. L. A.'s " letter should realise that Servicemen are bound to experience periods of mental depression, especially the men who have been away from home life for five years or more. Demobilisation is looked forward to so tremendously that our disappointments in Europe are felt more keel* by Servicemen than by civilians. Last September I was daring to hope that I might be back at business by next April, but now I am on fourteen days' embarkation leave with a very different prospect ahead.
Service life breeds its own real and imaginary grievances amongst its victims, whicli tend sometimes to discolour their outlook on the future. My own grievance is that, although I joined the Auxiliary Air Force in April, 1939, and was mobilised in the following August, yet I am in the same release group as all the men of my own age who joined up any time before November, 1939.—Truly yours, R.A.F. CORPORAL.
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