Poppies, poppies everywhere

[Rossgo]

I love our village sometimes! At the center of it we have the British Royal Legion (like many others) and last week they spread the Red Poppy everywhere, on lamps, roundabouts, speed limit signs. Can't go a second down the road without seeing one!

We shall remember

F' the pansies who say it should be white!

So what has everyone elses towns/ villiages done?

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[Blade]

Plenty of poppies here and lots of displays all over the area, and very rightly so. Its important we remember our lost service men and and woman and something we are teaching our children to honour and respect.

My kids are doing a minutes silence and the "Last Post" call on Friday at school and then the kids have created an exhibition we can view.

As a family we will be heading up to the War Memorial on Sunday for the service and our remembrance. The memorial is on top of a hill in a country park that was opened just after WW1 for remembrance by the Towns people. The route to the memorial is lined with 710 poppies, 1 for each young man from the town that sacrificed his live so we could live ours.

[Kwacky]

The white poppy is remember civilians and soldiers alike who have fallen in all wars. You might not agree with it, but millions fought for our right to have a choice and to express their opinions.

My village has a service on Sunday at a local church.

When I was a lad I used to help my mum selling poppies as she was a British Legion volunteer. Back then people gave money and wore a poppy and went to church on the Sunday to show their respects. Now things seem to be getting a bit out of hand. There's one street in Walsall that's covered in Remembrance memorabilia and it's been promoting itself on social media as if it's a tourist destination. That cheapens it IMO.

We should remember the sacrifices every day and be thankful. We can do that discretely.

[D41]

We should remember the sacrifices every day and be thankful.

This.

[Monty]

We've got those full size silhouette soldiers at the entrance to all the towns and villages in the Peaks.

It's quite a big one this year, this Sunday is 100 years since the WW1 guns fell silent. They're lighting a beacon in New Zealand and trying to get a chain going across the world.

The Village where I grew up in Staffordshire is lighting one, so planning on taking the kids.

[D6Nutz]

All the local villages, ours included have one of the siluettes as well.

Our village along with one other that I know of has a memorial ceremony at a monument into the villages.

[duke63]

Everyone should go and visit the cemeteries in France and Belgium.

Nothing can prepare you for it. The amount of sacrifice made is really quite horrendous.

[StMarks]

The War to end all Wars.

Shame we* can't even learn that basic lesson from their sacrifices.

Shame we* don't seem able to appreciate what their suffering eventually delivered to us.


* We = Current human society in general.

[DaytonAndy]

I happened to switch on BBC Merseyside this morning and they were talking about how Sefton (I think) had found the previous addresses of all the soldiers from the area that had died in service. They then wrote to the 1800 or so addresses still standing to let them know a previous occupant of the house had given their lives in the war. One lady at one of the addresses who happened to have four children who also had two children each received a letter saying that three brothers from that address all gave their lives in the war. She then wrote a letter thanking them. No point to the story but it did make me stop and think.
As above the war graves in France are incredibly sobering.

[D41]

We've got those full size silhouette soldiers at the entrance to all the towns and villages in the Peaks.

I can think of a couple of Japanese cities that have full-size wartime silhouettes.../

[Itchy]

What an incredibly inappropriate thread to post that shite in.

[Blade]

Well said Itchy.

[duke63]

A poppy should be a symbol of those who lost their lives. Nothing more and nothing less.

[kiwikrasher]

Jess carries a couple of poppies with her every day, there is multiple reasons she has these, but remembering those that have fallen is high up in that list

[D41]

Nice artwork!!

[Rossgo]

Thank you for all your contributions to this thread. 100 years when millions fought side by side for one common reason. We can't begin to imagine what these guys went through . We shall remember them

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[Kwacky]

The Poppy

I am not a badge of honour,
I am not a racist smear,
I am not a fashion statement,
To be worn but once a year.

I am not glorification
Of conflict or of war.
I am not a paper ornament
A token, I am more.

I am a loving memory,
Of a father or a son,
A permanent reminder
Of each and every one.

I'm paper or enamel
I'm old or shining new,
I'm a way of saying thank you,
To every one of you.

I am a simple poppy
A Reminder to you all,
That courage faith and honour,
Will stand where heroes fall.

[Rossgo]

Couldn't be truer Kwacky

It's so sad that boys were going into combat for our freedoms today.

Never forgotten

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