Show Us Your Poppy

[Klenchblaize]

K

 

[Smelly Yeti]

Goes on to the work ‘boiler suit’ every year without fail but still remember to stick some money in the tins as well.

 

[gixer1]

Oddly enough A I haven’t seen the poppy seller’s outside the supermarket yet as I usually get a few every year….

But I have previous years ones ready in need be!

 

[Ploddy Paul]

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn:
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning.
We will remember them.
I don’t know why but I had always assumed this had been written after the end of the First World War. Apparently it formed part of a poem, “ For the Fallen “, by
Laurence Binyon and was published in the Times on September 21st 1914.
Hell if only he knew what was to come!

 

[22xm1]

keep that one on the back of my harness.

 

[Klenchblaize]

K

 

[willowbank]

Reading as I am at this moment the latest of veritable tomes on the various battles in WW1, dates and locations I’m absolutely awestruck by the sheer scale of the suffering and loss of life endured by troops of all armies involved, Gallipoli, both Eastern and Western fronts, in the Air and at Sea.

Let’s not forget WW2 when again the commonwealth came together to fight on the various fronts around the globe.

I’m left wondering if today’s ‘manhood’ would actually be able, even if they were willing, to step up to the mark.

WB

 

[rms364]

 

[Lampwick]

 

[John Gryphon]

 

[Ratel]

One of many.

 

[enfieldspares]

Pause, Reflect, Remember....Lest We Forget.

 

[DanTheMan]

Have been out & about in the WW2 jeep selling poppies, finished today.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Have been out & about in the WW2 jeep selling poppies, finished today.

A very nice way to close this year's showings.

K

 

[paulst]

Some good stuff on here. Mine is tame by comparison.