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I have a poppy on my lapel, which I shall be wearing all week......no-one has any idea what it signifies......someone just asked me if it means that I voted!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cryin.gif

I know that this is a big thing in Canada, as it is in the UK and Europe, but I am always puzzled and disappointed that more is not made of the day in the USA. Yes, it's called "Veterans Day" but most people don't know the significance of the 11th of November, and even fewer know the significance of the poppy. America may have been late entering WWI but even so, a significant number of Americans lost their lives in the "War to end all wars".......more should be done to remember what they did.

I'll get off me soapbox now.
 
In the UK it is called Remembrance Day. Virtually every pub sells the poppies for a nominal donation. Sadly there are not many of the Great War vets left to thank.
 
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In the UK it is called Remembrance Day. Virtually every pub sells the poppies for a nominal donation. Sadly there are not many of the Great War vets left to thank.

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True, there are not many left now....... But even when the last ones are gone, they should still be remembered.

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It is also rememberance day north of the border and poppies are sold by the legion in stores and on the streets. There is also a minutes silence everywhere (stores factories etc )at 11.00am on nov 11 to remember those who made the supreme sacrifice. They will never be forgotten.
 
Love the poppy Barry , where did you get that one?
 
Every year my mum puts 10 gbp in the British Legion collection, and she sends me a car poppy and 5 regular ones which I wear the following year.
I am guilty of reusing the car poppies, but I'll always lay the regular poppies at the memorial in town at 11am.

Yours truly at the Somme earlier this year (real poppies in the bag from Theipval cemetary)

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And, unfortunatly.. we still have idiots stealing money from the Poppy boxes every year /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
It is nice to see the significance of Rememberance Day being brought back to the School system here as well. Lots of Poppies being worn in the High Schools.

Great post Steve.
 
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I have a poppy on my lapel, which I shall be wearing all week......no-one has any idea what it signifies......someone just asked me if it means that I voted!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cryin.gif

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I had a talk with my girlfriend about that last week. It didn't occur to her that we have Vetrans day in November until I reminded her of Armistice day, then the light bulb popped on. I'm not sure she understood the poppies or even heard of Flanders, but I didn't pursue the issue. She's pretty good with history, especially the WW2 era, but like a lot of people I think the WW1 era is kind of a void.

I collect books and publications on WW1, especially WW1-era aviation - but I have to admit that, except for the highlights, I can't ever remember much being taught about WW1 in school (I graduated from high school in the mid-80s).

We did have a month of the history on Thailand when I was in the 6th grade though - go figure.
 
Baz, I was over there this spring too.....went to Thiepval (where I bought the poppy lapel pin which I am wearing right now), also Vimy Ridge, Cambrai, Arras, Ypres...... Great trip, very awe-inspiring, (in the true meaning of the term) and something that I'll remember for the rest of my days. Found the memorial with my great-uncle's name....

As a "Bobby", I always wore a poppy for Memorial Day. It was the only decoration that we were ever allowed on our uniform (with the exception on medal ribbons, of course but I didn't have any of them) and I would buy several every year, in order that I always had a neat-looking one. They would get scruffy very quickly in my line of work.
 
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.


Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, May 3, 1915

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Darn, that's soleful.
 
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the poppy lapel pin which I am wearing right now),

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I have a 50th aniversary pin (put out in '95 by the Canadian legion) with 2 poppies and a maple leaf on it that I wear every day and have done so since I got in '95 it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/canpatriot.GIF
 
@Steve

Of course I wear my poppy all week as well, there just aren't any photos of me wearing it, you'll have to take my word for it... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif I just love photographing people and this project seems natural, I was going to do it last year but it didn't quite happen, the new camera is best suited for the job anyway
 
I'll say it again -
They were "The last great generation".
They believed in what they were fighting for,
& the country pulled together.
Sad to say that they are passing away.

- Doug
 
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I'll say it again -
They were "The last great generation".
They believed in what they were fighting for,
& the country pulled together.
Sad to say that they are passing away.

- Doug

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We just lost my wife's father a couple months ago. U.S. Navy, 1943-1945. He was a mean old son-of-a-b***h but he didn't hesitate when he was needed.

Bless 'em all.

R.
 
Prob the only reason he was mean was he was old and did not like it at all.

You know it is your body that wears out not your mind mostly. You want to do things and can not and you just have to have a nap, etc, etc.

However, we would not have it any other way as it beats the alternative.
 
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