I am a soldier serving in Iraq and I'm from Falmouth. I look forward to receiving your paper, just to find out what's going on back home, as I've spent more or less eight years away from the place.

I was just really disappointed when I saw the demonstrations in the town and the anti-war banners surrounded by smug, grinning faces! I'm glad they find it funny, just what are they trying to prove?

You speak to any local here in this once-deprived country and you tell them that they must go back to what they had - no freedom, and once more we are working damn hard out here to sort this place out.

Yes, it is getting there and it will take time but that's life. I know I speak on behalf of a lot of frustrated servicemen so sick of seeing a minority of, mostly students and the odd misguided, small minded individual who could not point Iraq or Sierra Leone or Afghanistan out on a map, let alone have a clue what he is talking about.

Let's stop giving these people any time. They should go and join the Red Cross or Unicef if they want to do something constructive but that would mean that dreaded word work!

I don't know if you will print this but I have a lot of mates serving around the world and from Falmouth and we know the majority are good people and back us.

Falmouth soldier serving in Basra