The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
I read with concern and some surprise the negative letter in The Voice (May 4) from Mrs Burgess, of Tetney.
The flower festival at St Mary’s Church, Long Sutton was extraordinarily beautiful, as always. Something approaching 9,000 visitors were delighted, even stunned, by the wonderful arrangements in an exceptionally beautiful building.
To read the disparaging letter was bizarre. The special area commemorating those who gave their lives in the wars contained the memorials, as usual, placed on the Sunday as nearly as possible to the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, when the armistice was signed in 1918. That, though Mrs Burgess might not know it, has been a 98-year tradition.
To have removed those poppies, etc, would have been an act of huge disrespect.
As the son of a decorated war hero, I almost resent her misinterpretation of the nature of war memorials.
I would rather celebrate, with the ‘almost’ 9,000 other visitors, a stupendous display of beauty and eternal hope for the future.
Coun Chris Brewis
Sutton Bridge
Sutton Bridge
