Rembrance Day - Poppies

N1805

I guess we all have charities we support for different reasons but I hope many will choose to buy a poppy leading up to Remembrance Day to show support for The Royal British Legion & those who died in war.  

Bakers2

Bought for us 3 and wearing with pride.

Son and I having a discussion about poppies, he has bought a poppy pin for his suit. I gave him a good grilling to check it was an RBL one and that he needs to put in every year 😉. I do fear for the fund raising when you see the knitted, jewelled etc ones coming out.  I think those look nice but easy to wear and not give.

We (he OH & self) all walked out to restaurant for OH birthday wearing ours, 'proper' poppies for us all 😉

I think the need for support is as great now as it has been since it was introduced. 

ValDa

Bought ours, too.  My father was an ex regular soldier, and used to sell poppies and continued doing so each year until just a few weeks before he died.  We have knitted poppies too, but always buy a 'proper' one as well - and sometimes wear them both.

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EasyT

I buy poppies as well. Usually by from sever different collectors. Where I fall down is with regard to wearing them. 

brue

Yes we buy them and wear them nearer the time of remembrance. I didn't think you delivered a homily N1805. Thank you. 

Oneputt

We buy red poppies and wear with pride.  We should never forget that the price of freedom we enjoy today, was the sacrifice of our forebears 

MJ730

I have a poppy pin a Somme 100 pin and a Passchendaele 100 pin but I always buy at least 1 normal poppy each year and wear it with pride in remembrance of my Grandfather who was killed in action in 1914.

Mike 

cyberyacht

I was born at close of war

Was spared the sights that others saw

I was spared the whistling boom

of bombs that turned homes into tombs

 

I have not faced machine guns clatter

Nor artillery’s endless batter

Driving poor men to the brink

Of madness or escape in drink

 

I have not kept lookout in fright

upon a dark and moonless night

Fearful for comrades to warn

Praying that I’ll live till dawn

 

I have not sailed upon the sea

Wondering if this time it’s me

to sink below the ocean’s face

Where only flotsam marks my place

 

I have not scoured the azure dome

Which only really birds call home

To search for foes up in the sky

Harbingers of time to die

 

I have not thought of what it cost

For things I have that others lost

If I look back and think, I see

A sacrifice and love for me.

Bakers2

Not a poem I've come across before. Very poignant and appropriate to several decades. Thank you for posting.

cyberyacht

I only wrote it last year.

JVB66

 Homily? just a reminder  for us all , as very few will not have some family that have been touched by the horrors  of wars  

ABM

I'll  have  to  get  another  Poppy  tomorrow.

Took  elderly  Sister  to  a  local  antiques  site  ( Dagfields  nr  Nantwich )  and  dropping  her  off  at  home  discovered  I'm  the  proud  owner  of  two  pins  and  a  y  shaped  piece  of  green  plastic  !

ABM

I  have  the  Somme  &  Passchendale  pins  too  MJ730,  but  they  stay  permanently  on  my  camera  strap.

Traficlady

My husband managed to get a couple of the standard cheap poppies last night but I haven’t seen a poppy seller this year. They’re normally in the entrances to Asda and Tesco etc. but not this year. 

ABM

In  Crewe  they  are  in  all  the  s/markets  and  in  many  other  places  too,  Traficlady  and  it  was  in  ASDA  where  I  got  my  replacement  this  afternoon .  It  was  good  to  see  that  there  were  Men  &  Women  sellers  after  the  kerfuffle  about  the  women  being  deemed second  class  members  of  the  R B L.  despite  their  membership  of  the  Armed  Forces  growing  ever  greater  and  more  involved.

 

JVB66

Our Daughter got married on 11 Nov and she and new hubby (now ex)wore poppies and gave instructions to all guests they must wear one