CLEARLY, Dennis Jones’s ultra narrow-minded nationalism has left him either with a myopic view or he’s just not bothered to read any history.

The ceremony to honour our military dead referred to “and Commonwealth”, so allow me to enlighten him about the 74,000 Indian troops who died fighting in WWI for Britain, the thousands of troops from the West Indies who died at Gallipoli, the brave Polish and Czech fighter pilots, many of whom gave their lives for us – and were indispensable during that long year from 1940 to 1941, the thousands of Polish troops who fought under British command in North Africa, France, Italy and at Arnhem, not to mention the Indian troops who fought bravely against the marauding Japanese alongside Bangladeshi nationals and troops from Pakistan. Altogether this amounts to 2.5 million men, many of whom paid the ultimate sacrifice fighting for us.

My point is that the sacrifice of the aforementioned foreign pilots, soldiers and servicemen from Eastern Europe, the Indian subcontinent and Africa shames those who today regard immigrants from those parts of the world as the enemy within.

This shameless attempt to make political capital out of Remembrance Day has never been more naked in its cynicism.

Mr T King, Five Locks Road, Cwmbran