Parade should focus on remembering war dead

10:25am Monday 19th November 2007

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I would like to comment on the front page news of Chorley Citizen, November 14.

I always understood that a parade did not finish until the order was given by whoever was leading that parade, that did not happen at the Sunday's Remembrance Day commemorations in Adlington.

The band had commenced playing for the march back to the community centre when the Mayor Miss Molyneaux and her mother left to walk to their car which they had parked in Highfield Road.

I would also like to comment on the Remembrance Day commemorations in Adlington, I have attended this service at the Cenotaph for many years and over the last few years have seen a decline in the organisation of it.

For the last two years, the leader of the parade has made a error in conduction of it, at the time you smile or even laugh but it is not funny and these things should not happen.

We are there to remember the men and women who gave thier lives for us therefore it should be conducted in the manner worthy of them.

I hasten to add that I was a child during the 1939- 1945 conflict and yes I do remember what did happen in those war years.

Mrs Jean Flint