I am glad Carol,Carolyn and Loraine said that.
I don't either think it is disrepectfull to the people who want to commerate rememberance, to have the lights up as early as this, those who want to get into the christmas spirit early can do so and christmas lights will hardly effect people commerating remembrance.
As Father Richard said yesterday, we start with advent on 27th november which is 6 weeks leading up to christmas and so we have a double celebration with advent and then christmas.
Besides it will be nice to have a little bit of brightness and cheer after having november 5th and halloween which are both celebrating death and evil and halloween is trivialising the all hallows eve which used to be the real celebration day.
So as i said after all the doom and gloom and to have more sadness put with that with remebrance it will be nice to have some cheer with advent and christmas.
Love and best wishes
AndrewxxxAnimal-cat5527