MIDDLEBOROUGH (AP) - Middleborough's Board of Selectmen has voted to ban Christmas lights on a spruce tree in a town park that was donated in memory of a World War I Medal of Honor winner.
The tree was decorated last year by a woman who organizes the town's Christmas festival.
But the man who donated tree in memory of Patrick Regan, a World War I veteran, said decorating the tree was disrespectful and it was never intended to be "a Santa Claus" tree.
Selectmen voted 3-2 on Monday to ban lights on the tree.
The Enterprise of Brockton reports that the woman who decorated the tree, Muriel Duphily, said she never meant to be disrespectful to veterans.
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