Show Us Your Poppy

[MattJ]

A bit late, but just back from London for the Cenotaph parade. Extraordinarily moving.
Lest we forget.

 

[GrahamK998]

Was a good turnout.

 

[bottletopbill]

Only charity i support 100% we need to support those that have served and left on there own . (sorry for the way our government treats you )

 

[kenbro]

Ken.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Deeply saddened by the lack of poppies on display by London commuters as at 07/11. I have honestly only seen one other wearer since Monday and that was a hand-knitted version of questionable ancestry.

I know Sunday is 5-days away but I’ve always worn mine from the back end of October and so too did many others prior to 2019.

Hope this is just a blip and not positive indication of a dying interest in those who sacrificed everything for our freedoms.

K

 

[jall55]

Having a collection on our shoot Saturday

 

[Bavarianbrit]

I just had the "kriegs graben versammlung" chap knock my door as they do each year, I gave the usual Euro amount and signed the list so that the village knows who gave or did not. They are the equivalent of the UKs war graves commission but it is run as a charity not from the German government to the best of my knowledge.

 

[bottletopbill]

Some folks choose not to wear a poppy but donate to the poppy appeal as i do.
My children wear there arm bands and a poppy as I explain there great grandad died for his country and for them to have a free life.
But now feel was his and so many wasted as the country is being run by other.s

Just hope the march is not allowed to happen.

 

[kenbro]

Deeply saddened by the lack of poppies on display by London commuters as at 07/11. I have honestly only seen one other wearer since Monday and that was a hand-knitted version of questionable ancestry.

I know Sunday is 5-days away but I’ve always worn mine from the back end of October and so too did many others prior to 2019.

Hope this is just a blip and not positive indication of a dying interest in those who sacrificed everything for our freedoms.

K

I received a small wooden cross to inscribe and return and also a postal request from The BL.
Sent a cheque for £20 and buy odd poppies from street collectors but never wear them, just keep using enamel badge ones fron yesteryear.
so, just ‘cause people aren’t wearing them doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten.
Ken.

 

[Stalker62]

I know Sunday is 5-days away but I’ve always worn mine from the back end of October...

I have always worn mine from the 1st November, and have always taken it down after the 11th.

However, I am reminded of a true story.

I once "looked after" a member of HMG. It was a Sunday service in November and as we walked into Church he realised that he was not wearing a poppy.

"S62. Give me your Poppy will you".

To this day, I don't know why I did, but I took mine off and fastened it into his button hole - and then spent the entire Service 'sans Poppy', with the whole congregation and gathered press thinking I did not care.

Still embarrassed by it.

However, enjoyed reading his book...

 

[Klenchblaize]

Just hope the march is not allowed to happen.

If this must be debated as it probably should given it touches on certain freedoms, may we please use another thread to kick it off.

Thanks

K

 

[bottletopbill]

Let us not forget. also for those that have the many scares of battle and those that have scares we cannot see.

 

[Ratel]

Local lad in our churchyard. I read the honour list Sunday.
Mine on my 50+ year old.napper cover.

 

[flatliner]

In greatful remembrance of 2 servicemen who,in rural Northern Ireland, laid down their lives on this day, 49 years ago. Lest we forget.

 

[safer]

 

[VSS]

I won't be wearing a poppy. I never have. That does not mean I do not care, or that I've "forgotten". I just don't feel the need to follow the conventional crowd. Grief and remembrance are, to me, very personal things. For the same reason, I did not wear a black tie to mourn the passing of our late Queen. Nothing to do with lack of respect. An outward display is pretty meaningless, imo. Anyone can dress up. It's what's inside that counts.

 

[finnbear270]

I hear a tray full of poppies were on display for sale at a railway station on UK Mainland ….. the vet selling them was assaulted …. Time to call out the the guard. …. But then that might sound a little bit OTT.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

I have always worn mine from the 1st November, and have always taken it down after the 11th.

However, I am reminded of a true story.

I once "looked after" a member of HMG. It was a Sunday service in November and as we walked into Church he realised that he was not wearing a poppy.

"S62. Give me your Poppy will you".

To this day, I don't know why I did, but I took mine off and fastened it into his button hole - and then spent the entire Service 'sans Poppy', with the whole congregation and gathered press thinking I did not care.

Still embarrassed by it.

However, enjoyed reading his book...

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I worked with an older English chap at Ford Saarlouis and he mentioned that D Hurd was a regular visitor to his parents house when he was younger, I remember it as I believe he was one of those pistol banners.

 

[Klenchblaize]

I won't be wearing a poppy. I never have. That does not mean I do not care, or that I've "forgotten". I just don't feel the need to follow the conventional crowd. Grief and remembrance are, to me, very personal things. For the same reason, I did not wear a black tie to mourn the passing of our late Queen. Nothing to do with lack of respect. An outward display is pretty meaningless, imo. Anyone can dress up. It's what's inside that counts.

And some may wish to display their heart on a sleeve that will most certainly not be meaningless to the apparently poor misguided souls in question.

Each to their own as the freedoms won by the dead in question permit.

K

 

[finnbear270]

I also wear the Purple poppy ….. it’s in remembrance of the uncounted horses lost.