Are we really honouring an event? (From Northwich Guardian)

Are we really honouring an event?

2:40pm Wednesday 25th August 2010 in

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I RECENTLY carried out a mini survey of my own and concluded that the support for September’s Middlewich WW2 event is running high, with families eager to come into the town and locals, more importantly enthusiastically encouraging visitors.

I recently visited New Brighton – £49m being spent on regeneration, that’s a lot of civic pride; £14bn to be spent in Birkenhead over several years, more pride. See the pattern emerging?

Jonathan Williams is cornered into doing some fantastic quadratic equations for a £14k spend! Come on! Are we honouring an event here?

I was not around for the original event – despite ugly rumours to the contrary – but I think the concept of showing (younger) people what life was really like during the Second World War is worthwhile and taking the time to honour and respect those who do remember, not forgetting those who fell, is important.

It was a time when people pulled together – something close to our hearts in these economic times – and a time when every little helps. Now where have I heard that before?

Jonathan, thanks for the maths lesson but I think we in Middlewich should ask the question ‘ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country’ (JFK).

FRANCES COWPER The ACCORD Clinic, Middlewich