I have to say it.

I'm a little disturbed that the Parks Department felt that it was okay to pluck a perfectly spry spruce tree from a cemetery - yes, a cemetery - to use as a Christmas tree in downtown Manchester.  Not just any cemetery, mind you, but the very cemetery where both my grandparents are buried and my mother-in-law rests in peace.  Apparently, come spring, they are going to plant a smaller tree in the spot where this tree stood, but the Pine Grove Cemetery landscape has been forever changed.      

Is there any line that should not be crossed? 

Even if it wasn't a cemetery tree, an old one even, it was still a live tree.  And it's off to its own grave in just a few weeks now.  I don't know, call me an environmentalist if you must, but it just sounds wrong to me. 

Can't we plant a tree instead?  There's a park on Elm Street that could use one.  Say, about 50 feet tall?