I AM a 19-year-old student who has lived in Bromsgrove all my life, and I would like to ask all inhabitants of the town to stop for a minute and think to themselves how lucky they are that they were not involved in a major national disaster such as the tsunami in the Middle East or Hurricane Katrina in the southern states of America.

There are children who have been left homeless and others who have been left without family, only to see those they love drifting by lifeless - their bodies left to decay on the streets of 'the brave', the country they pledged allegiance to leaving them to plague the waters and the space of the few survivors.

I would like to say how proud I am to be British, whether English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish, together as one. Let us pray for those who did not make it, and those who did and now live in conditions that must resemble hell.

Stop worrying about the parking spaces and the disposal services. What matters is that it could be us left without family or necessities. What matters is that we could be without.

As it happens we are fortunate to have something to 'attack'.

Bex

Bromsgrove

(by e-mail)