Will you be wearing a poppy?
miss_astrid
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I've noticed PM's and such have started wearing their poppies already. I thought you started wearing them generally in November, or is this year special because it is the WW1 Centenary?
I've also noticed poppy displays have been popping up in shops and such, so I have put on my Royal Legion poppy wrist band as a show of support. I'll also be wearing my paper poppy as and when I can, and may even purchase a poppy brooch to show my support. My family is very "into" the armed forces, and quite a lot of them have served (not me, though) so I am happy to show my support for soldiers, both alive and fallen.
Will you be donning a poppy or poppy related item this year? If not, why not?
I've also noticed poppy displays have been popping up in shops and such, so I have put on my Royal Legion poppy wrist band as a show of support. I'll also be wearing my paper poppy as and when I can, and may even purchase a poppy brooch to show my support. My family is very "into" the armed forces, and quite a lot of them have served (not me, though) so I am happy to show my support for soldiers, both alive and fallen.
Will you be donning a poppy or poppy related item this year? If not, why not?
Will you be wearing a poppy/poppy related item this year? 376 votes
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I wear one in a professional capacity, but I don't on personal time.
I wear my metal lapel poppy all year round.
Exactly. People shouldn't be forced into wearing one. It should be up to each person if they want to wear one or not.
But I wear a white poppy for peace, not a red one.
Well this is the problem with the poppy. It doesn't have one fixed meaning, it has evolved a multiplicity of meanings, some of which are actively contradictory.
Personally I wear it in large measure in remembrance of my German grandfather who actively served in Flanders over a period of several years during WW1. But others would claim that's a 'misuse' of the emblem.:(
When you say it has contradictory meanings, do you mean across the world? What does it represent in other countries?
I don't think that, nor should any sensible person.
I could say I wear it in remembrance of my Great Uncle who died at Passchendaele, or my two Grandfathers who were both injured fighting for their country.
But really, I wear the poppy to remember all who suffered and died in our uniform.
https://twitter.com/PoppyLegion/status/396308596461273088
If that's the way it is going to evolve then count me out.
Me too ...............I know it gets done to death this time of year but - I do find it moving.
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.
This, two lanyards to. Other poppy pins as well. Just got another enamel one. Also get the normal paper one.