Rembrance Day - Poppies

Bought for us 3 and wearing with pride.

Son and I having a discussion about poppies, he has bought a poppy pin for his suit. I gave him a good grilling to check it was an RBL one and that he needs to put in every year 😉. I do fear for the fund raising when you see the knitted, jewelled etc ones coming out.  I think those look nice but easy to wear and not give.

We (he OH & self) all walked out to restaurant for OH birthday wearing ours, 'proper' poppies for us all 😉

I think the need for support is as great now as it has been since it was introduced. 

Bought ours, too.  My father was an ex regular soldier, and used to sell poppies and continued doing so each year until just a few weeks before he died.  We have knitted poppies too, but always buy a 'proper' one as well - and sometimes wear them both.

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I buy poppies as well. Usually by from sever different collectors. Where I fall down is with regard to wearing them. 

Yes we buy them and wear them nearer the time of remembrance. I didn't think you delivered a homily N1805. Thank you. 

We buy red poppies and wear with pride.  We should never forget that the price of freedom we enjoy today, was the sacrifice of our forebears 

I have a poppy pin a Somme 100 pin and a Passchendaele 100 pin but I always buy at least 1 normal poppy each year and wear it with pride in remembrance of my Grandfather who was killed in action in 1914.

Mike 

I was born at close of war

Was spared the sights that others saw

I was spared the whistling boom

of bombs that turned homes into tombs

 

I have not faced machine guns clatter

Nor artillery’s endless batter

Driving poor men to the brink

Of madness or escape in drink

 

I have not kept lookout in fright

upon a dark and moonless night

Fearful for comrades to warn

Praying that I’ll live till dawn

 

I have not sailed upon the sea

Wondering if this time it’s me

to sink below the ocean’s face

Where only flotsam marks my place

 

I have not scoured the azure dome

Which only really birds call home

To search for foes up in the sky

Harbingers of time to die

 

I have not thought of what it cost

For things I have that others lost

If I look back and think, I see

A sacrifice and love for me.

Not a poem I've come across before. Very poignant and appropriate to several decades. Thank you for posting.

I only wrote it last year.