Train tribute

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I have never heard a more poignant announcement on a train than the one which the clearly moved guard made somewhere between Totnes and Newton Abbot last night, informing passengers that Nelson Mandela had died. A moment I shall never forget. Peter Kaan Exeter, Devon

• Is it not now time to honour Mandela with a statue on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, opposite South Africa House and the scene of so many anti-apartheid demonstrations? Chris McDonnell Little Haywood, Staffordshire

• No one seems to have realised that when President Obama said of Nelson Mandela, "Now he belongs to the ages", he was echoing the words attributed to the US secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, on the death of Abraham Lincoln? He could have paid no higher tribute. Robert Meikle Birmingham

• Obama paid handsome tribute to Mandela. Perhaps now he will free his own political prisoners? The steel cells of Guantánamo look very similar to Mandela's sparse prison cell at Robben Island. Joy Hurcombe Worthing, West Sussex

• Some words from King Lear spring to mind: "We that are young shall never see so much, nor live so long." Chris Coates Colchester, Essex

• In the run-up to the Iraq war, Nelson Mandela described Tony Blair as behaving like the US secretary of state. Has there been a better summation of Blair? Michael Wharton Darsham, Suffolk

• I'm sure David Cameron's statement on the death of Nelson Mandela was sincere. So why does it make me so angry? Barry Wrankmore Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire

• As prominent Conservative MPs queue up to sing Mandela's praises, could you publish the names of all those who, in their days in the Young Conservatives or the Monday Club, called for his execution as a terrorist? Tony Clarke London

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