howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#2
"The white poppy remembers all who are killed in war - including victims"
Surely everyone who dies be they service personnel or civilian they are all "victims".
I wear my red poppy to remember all who died in conflict but especially those who have no family to remember them.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#3
the purple one is in rememberance of the animals that died during ww1,horses mules etc.
I was in belguim on Friday while eating lunch at hooge museam a coach party of school kids came in wearing hoodies with white poppies printed on the back with some sort of wording along with the childs name.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#4
But I understand the British legion has no problems with any of the 3 colours
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#5
keith, its down to personal preference, as I've said the purple one is for the remberance of animals, horses / mules etc.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#6
'White poppies are attention seeking rubbish. Ignore the wearers of them. If you don’t want to wear a poppy don’t bother; they fought and died so you could choose. But don’t deliberately try and hijack it’s symbolism for your own ends'. Johnny Mercer MP
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#7
You forgot to say "courtesy of Johnny Mercer MP" Bob.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#8
Sorted Howard!
Plagiarize
Let no one else's work evade your eyes
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So don't shade your eyes
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize
Only be sure always to call it please "research"
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#9
Captain Haddock wrote:'White poppies are attention seeking rubbish. Ignore the wearers of them. If you don’t want to wear a poppy don’t bother; they fought and died so you could choose. But don’t deliberately try and hijack it’s symbolism for your own ends'. Johnny Mercer MP
I doubt Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern or even Hoagy Carmichael could put that hysterical bluster to music.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus