During this festive, fun Halloween time, not needed are so-called decorations of mock tombstones that thoughtless house owners put out on their front lawns. These are reminders of all the people who have died in wars, floods, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, crime and from other causes, who now lie adjacent to their own tombstones, or the ones killed on 9/11 whose remains were never found and hence have no tombstones.
Worst yet, are the thoughtless people who think that having a human form or skeleton with its neck in a noose hanging from a tree is decoration?
Every year, hundreds of people and all who know them, are painfully reminded of how a family member, a friend or an acquaintance killed himself.
Certainly the father and his young son who were enjoying a walk together in a scenic wooded reservation about twelve years ago, do not like to be reminded of what the little boy saw, then pointed to as he asked his father about "it" hanging from a tree branch, ~ my nephew's best friend, the twenty-two year old son of family friends.
I do not like to be annually reminded in any way of my nephew's anguish and the great sadness and grief of our friends.
And why is a bloodied human form considered a Halloween decoration? It is doubtful that any of the service men and women returning from overseas duty would be amused by any such "display;" they need to forget all the bloodied bodies that they have seen, rather than being confronted and mocked by the fake bloody human looking forms often seen on front of house grass.
What kind of parents would want to expose their children to this kind of horror?
Witches, ghosts, goblins, cobwebs, black cats and grinning pumpkins are fun and appropriate, they are not distressful to neighbors and people who walk or drive by.
In a recent early November, a missing man was found lying next to a Halloween display on the front porch of a house whose owners always used a back door entrance.
The police asked the mailman why he had not reported the dead man. He said he thought the man, clad in blue jeans and a long sleeved plaid shirt, was just part of the decorations, many places had realistic men dressed like that, most were bloody; he tried not to look at them.
It is not just bad weather that a postman has to endure these days but people with a bad sense of what is amusing.
In a recent early November, a missing man was found lying next to a Halloween display on the front porch of a house whose owners always used a back door entrance.
The police asked the mailman why he had not reported the dead man. He said he thought the man, clad in blue jeans and a long sleeved plaid shirt, was just part of the decorations, many places had realistic men dressed like that, most were bloody; he tried not to look at them.
It is not just bad weather that a postman has to endure these days but people with a bad sense of what is amusing.
Speak or send a letter to those thoughtless people who have the cruel displays, and firmly request that they remove and discard them.
Use this write-up as a basis for letters that you send to your local and city newspapers, as well as the mayors of your and nearby towns and cities so that soon all towns will have an ordinance forbidding anyone for any reason to have any cruel, thoughtless so called "displays."
~ My Halloween decorations are always fun and appropriate ~
