Will You Be Wearing Your Red Poppy With Pride?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/poppy-appeal-2014-this-is-why-i-wont-be-wearing-a-red-poppy-this-year-9814449.html

[youngmafbog]

yes, I will. but then I am not a hand wringing lefty.

[EcclesCake]

Without doubt.

[jim360]

Never let it be said that you miss an opportunity to get all irate at "lefties".

Mind, I've never been a fan of unilateralism either.

[ummmm]

I don't wear one but I'll donate.

[jourdain2]

Yes - and we have to go to some trouble to get them. We shall also be wearing the French 'Cornflowers' and attending their ceremony at the war memorial, where the British contingent are welcomed to leave their individual poppy tributes along with the official bouquets. We do this to honour those who gave their lives and not in any pro-war sense. Afterwards there will be a communal 'vin d'honneur' and common understanding.

[Ken4155]

Yes, with gratitude and pride and whatever shade of red it may come in.

[bookbinder]

Count me in, also. I'll wear one and so will my wife.

[Baldric]

I will as usual be wearing my Red Poppy with Pride,

Spare a thought, too, for the men and women of the White Poppy appeal. And don't make it a kind thought. This wretched outfit "believes that there are better ways of solving conflicts than killing strangers". That is how they describe the sacrifice of British and Allied lives in the inescapable war against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers.
People who wear white poppies – who include the sanctimonious prats of the "Christian" think tank Ekklesia – not only dishonour our war dead: they also assert their supposed moral superiority over the 40 million Britons who wear British Legion red poppies.
What should you do if you see a white poppy wearer today? At the very least – if I may borrow a phrase from my colleague Alan Cochrane – you should give them a cheery wave not involving the use of all your fingers.
(Borrowed from the 'Telegraph' Nov. 2008)

[MargoTester]

Yes and have also ordered one from the Tower of London.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes.

[Zeuhl]

Same as every year- Yes, but I'm not sure I wear it with pride.

I wear it out of respect for my family members and their colleagues who were killed and wounded. And it ensures that we think about them; as indeed I do at the moment every time I walk past the amazing Tower of London display.

The author in the link argues:

/But we fear that in remembering the First World War, too many people in government and military are using the compassion that people feel to justify present and future wars./

Really???
I haven't noticed that.

[bednobs]

yes - i've had the same one for the last 4 years!

[ToraToraTora]

steady AOG you'll start the anti British off! Yes I will, I also bought one of the ceramic ones and I'm in the British Legion! Seen this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-29745303

[anotheoldgit]

bednobs

/// yes - i've had the same one for the last 4 years! ///

"Cheapskate". :0)

[ToraToraTora]

yeah well done bednobs, what a nice piece of work you are.

[bednobs]

i always give money every year, just don't take a new poppy. I have always had terrible trouble making them stay on my jacket, so because this one has stayed on, i just leave it there. Even if im wearing the jacket in april.

[berniecuddles]

every year!

[bednobs]

careful when you're leaping to those conclusions, ttt, you might hurt yourself!