Some things shouldn’t change

Editor:

The recent change notified in Creemore Echo’s Nov. 30 publication, supports the theory that ‘nothing stays the same’.  

Spike and Rusty weekly puzzle will be missed as will Ken Thornton himself. Good luck Ken.

Wilson’s Avridge Farm cartoons have brought many a smile to this community.

One other subject while I have my fingers on the keyboard: I share your readers’ anger over speakers using Armistice Day parades to spin some political point. 

As always on these solemn occasions we should focus on giving two minutes silence with any appropriate speech remembering the fallen, and that should never change.

I attended my first Armistice Parade in 1930s, remembering those who fell in WW1 in our town.  Their names are still cut into stone on the town’s cenotaph.  

Again in late 1940s, I attended services remembering the fallen personnel from WW2 by adding more names to those of WW1.

Regretfully, changes in the future will no doubt give some stone mason more work. But one thing remains; those donning a uniform to fight for their country do not indicate any political leanings. Many of us who served in WW2 wonder why the unnecessary change in rhetoric; stick to the service at hand and leave present day politics out of it. 

The cenotaphs only have alphabetically engraved names under a war heading, they are not segregated or politically color coded for any reason.  

If that ever happens, it would be a deplorable change.

Ray Jackson,

Mulmur.