ON Thursday, March 3 you published a letter written by Mr D Pratt, of Accrington, about people all too eagerly claiming for life "traumas" which some in the legal profession have made into big business.

Thank you Mr Pratt, for pointing out the real definition of trauma.

Towards the end of World War Two, which we are commemorating the 60th anniversary this year, my eldest brother, Pilot Officer Fred Vesey Robinson, age 22, along with his Halifax bomber crew of seven, were on their 25th operation at night, over the German industrial Ruhr.

Sadly four of the crew lost their lives, one being my brother. Three of the crew managed to bail out and survived.

My mother told, me my brother Freddie told my mother: "Flying over the target was like flying into hell."

My mother described him, when home on leave, "as having the maturity of a man twice his age and his hair was going grey and his nerves were in a dreadful state." As Mr Pratt quite rightly said "that's trauma."

KEN ROBINSON, Penshaw Close, Pleckgate.