Rembrance Day - Poppies

N1805
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edited November 2017 in Charities & Good Causes #1

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.  

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  • Bakers2
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    edited November 2017 #2

    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
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    edited November 2017 #3

    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
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    edited November 2017 #5

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

  • brue
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    edited November 2017 #6

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

  • Oneputt
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    edited November 2017 #7

    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
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    edited November 2017 #8

    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 

  • Bakers2
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    edited November 2017 #10

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

  • cyberyacht
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    edited November 2017 #11

    I only wrote it last year.

  • JVB66
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    edited November 2017 #12

     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
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    edited November 2017 #13

    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
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    edited November 2017 #14

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

  • Traficlady
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    edited November 2017 #15

    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
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    edited November 2017 #16

    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
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    edited November 2017 #17

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

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