Switch would give a more dignified setting (From Warrington Guardian)

Switch would give a more dignified setting

THIS is an open letter to the people who object to the relocation of the war memorial to a site which is all of 500 metres away from its present location.

I am an ex-Army Warrant Officer with 27 years of service in East Africa, Malaya, Borneo, Cyprus, Germany, Northern Ireland and with the UN Forces.

I, therefore, feel that I have a valid right to have an opinion about where I go to pay my respects to the all too many of my dear friends and comrades who paid the ultimate price for serving the people of our wonderful country.

It is only after a lot of careful thought that I have come to the conclusion that it is far more preferable to be able to attend to my own private memories in a place, which has a certain amount of dignity and a comparatively peaceful atmosphere, surrounded by a library and, some distance away, the law courts, and a nicely landscaped area of trees and flowers, rather than in the middle of a shopping centre with the attendant hustle and bustle of traffic, along with the fast-food shops and everything that goes with an increasingly busy town centre.

After all, this object of civic importance was erected when Crewe was in its infancy, and it is no longer recognisable as the sort of location that was suitable when the decision was made to put it where it is.

Without wanting to point out the obvious, time and tide wait for no man. Life goes on and we must also move on.

Unless of course, we are fully paid up members of the Flat Earth Society.

Clive Shore

Manor Way

Crewe