Well every days a school day as they say, I'm no spring chicken but in all my years I didn't even know people wore white poppies on Remembrance Day until this thread, Even as a child at school when we used to go out and shake a tin and sell them for the RBL which I did on numerous occasions I never once seen a white poppy, Anyway each to their own and wear whatever colour you want (I'll stick with Red) but lets always remember the brave men and women who gave so much so we can enjoy what we have today.
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Stalker62
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I was in a bar in Australia on Anzac Day.
At the appointed hour (I had no idea it was going to happen) - the whole place (and it was lively), fell silent and stood.
One of the most moving moments of my life.
How it should be.
BenBhoy
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They're not new, been a 'thing' for plenty of years
Remembrance & White Poppies
The white poppy has been worn in the run-up to Remembrance Day for over ninety years, as a symbol of remembrance and peace.White poppies are worn every year by thousands of people across the UK and beyond. They were first produced in 1933 in the aftermath of the First World War, by members of...
www.ppu.org.uk
They may have been around a long time but they don't seem to be as popular as red ones and I can honestly say I have never seen anyone wearing a white poppy on remembrance day, But hey if your choice is white then go for it, it's just not for meThey're not new, been a 'thing' for plenty of years
Remembrance & White Poppies
The white poppy has been worn in the run-up to Remembrance Day for over ninety years, as a symbol of remembrance and peace.White poppies are worn every year by thousands of people across the UK and beyond. They were first produced in 1933 in the aftermath of the First World War, by members of...
Stunning photo that
Nobody planted them. They just appeared the first year I was Church Warden in that place and nowhere else. A very ethereal time for me.
Rasputin
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In the UKs defence I don’t think Iv ever seen a white poppy on an actual human and generally speaking Remembrance Day is quite well received.
Though I do agree it does feel a bit like it comes from the sort who would put it next to a rainbow badge just to make a statement but I believe from
reading the original “creators” were in the 1930s so pre all this woke crap.
I'm not sure why the white poppy would be an issue (or any colour one to be honest) remembering and respecting those who served, are serving or will serve in the future is a good thing in any capacity as far as I'm concerned. I think it's much better than not remembering or respecting at all, even if it also gets intertwined with someone's other beliefs etc
FrenchieBoy
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One of the best "anti war" songs ever written and so very true in so many ways!
Lest We Forget"!
Lest We Forget"!
BenBhoy
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Exactly mate, you'd think that, and yet it seems to generate a lot of hostility. Funny old world considering the context...
I'm not sure why you think a red poppy doesn't say that already?
BenBhoy
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But it only represents British people
How far do you want to go in your non biased remembering of war dead ?
The guards at the concentration camps who got killed by liberating allies?
Terrorists who killed policemen at children’s playgrounds and in their living rooms?
Or do you just mean civilians and not all war dead
Inspired by a poem written by a Canadian, Lt Col John McCrae, and established as a symbol of those who had fallen in the Great War by Moina Michael, an American academic from the University of Georgia, who became known as "the Poppy Lady".
It began in Britain when Lord Haig met a French woman in London called Anna Guérin, who was there to sell poppies and was the originator of the Remembrance Poppy Day.
So although the Poppy Appeal raises money for the Royal British Legion, the poppy as a symbol represents far, far more than just the British people.
That's why it's worn by others not just British people and as previously put started by a French woman in initially in France.
Quite the contrary. Did the original remembrance include white poppies? No, it did not. People such as yourself have decided that they want to add to it, to include a statement of the own political beliefs. And, instead of creating a day to remember those civilians who's lives were lost in war, or want to protest war, they then have used the Remembrance Day as a platform for their statement(s).That's just it, nobody is trying to 'highjack' anything..that's just you using overly dramatic language (yet again) to try to belittle anyone who thinks different to you...
Where I come from, that's called hijacking something, to use it for purposes other than what was originally intended.
Calling that "dramatic language" doesn't change that fact. And it doesn't belittle anyone who thinks differently, it simply points our fact.
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