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

[RandyMarsh]

Yep

[Zeuhl]

/"hey I put tuppence in the box 4 years ago and managed ever since aren't I clever" - coupled with the oh bu66ger been caught must make up a plausible explanation shuffle! /

PMSL T3

you do realize Bedknobs didn't write any of that?
you do realize it was all in your interpretation (imagination)?

Just checking....
:-)

[FrogNog]

No. I hate violence and war in all its forms and I stay away from the symbolism.

[Hypognosis]

One of the article's linked stories is (see below) but I cannot get it to load.
My BB is down at the moment and it's taking too long over 3G.
Just confirmation that the page does load will do. Thanks

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-do-those-who-flaunt-the-poppy-on-their-lapels-know-that-they-mock-the-war-dead-6257416.html

[Lie-in King]

Yes.

[kylesmum]

Yes.

[Hypognosis]

Thanks, Lie-inKing and Kylesmum.
Have reset my router for the fifth/sixth time and now the page loads.

[tamborine]

Yes as am grateful for my liberty

[lady-janine]

as always. no question about it.

[jourdain2]

'Help for Heroes' is hugely laudable, we have fund-raised for it (through the choir we sing in) for a long time. The operators are volunteers (so I am assured) and all monies raised go to the fund. Having said that, wearing the poppy and attending the War Memorial is, as I have said, a mark of respect, thanks and an expression of humility regarding the horrors and sacrifices shown by these dead soldiers. 'My subject is war - and the pity of war'.

[agchristie]

My grandfather had a small receptacle where he placed his red poppy in every year after wearing it with pride. He had loads of them. He died in '95 and was very proud of his country.

I shudder to think of what he would make of it now.

[Slapshot]

Of course and the Avatar will change afetr Halloween to one of my own images this year... I wear it to remember military friends lost in peace and conflict over the years as well as those lost in war

[tonyav]

I certainly will be.

[Slapshot]

hypognosis, while I understand what Fisk is saying, he offers no solutions as to how we display our respects, how we openly share our collective thanks for those who laid down their lives for our country not just in WW1 but in every conflict and in wghat we allege as peacetime. I find Fisk too left wing, too "wannabee PC" to have any real respect for what he writes.
Perhaps the view our Military take to wearing the poppy as an act of rememberance should carry the real weight of the debate, they wear it with pride in their heritage and in the people who stood before them, maybe some of lefty whiners should take a leaf from their books.

[anneasquith]

I have never seen the white ones for sale ?

[TonyV]

I will wear mine with pride so will my car

[agchristie]

It is certainly not just some 'fashion appendage'.

[Slapshot]

Just thinking, for those who have some objections or won't wear a poppy, is this wrong as well???

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb6/Slapshot_3/IMG_1103.jpg