RE the report about friends and family of injured soldier Rick Clements who has fought his way back from a coma and is to be an Olympic torchbearer (LT, April 11).

What a fantastic chap he is to have gone through all that and achieve what he has.

This should serve as a lesson to all those people out there who feel hard done to and that life is giving them nothing.

Life is what you make it! Well done to Sgt Rick Clement, I doff my cap to you.

YFS (via email).