Rememberance Day

[swiss miss]

im wearing my poppy with pride (f)

[dope]

im wearing my poppy with pride too
we love you all

[Jimmy James]

isn't today the 10th?

and what does poppy have to do with it? I assume this is a british holiday, similar to veteran's day in america (based on the end of WW1). but we don't wear poppies

EDIT: nevermind, I looked it up

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.

[hoos]

yeah it's the 10th, but I'll let it slide...... I'm not sure why This is a holiday and V-J Day and V-E day aren't as popular.

[Loopus]

FYI Tyler... That little Red thing that the VFW gives out in front of churches and supermarkets is a poppy

[Jimmy James]

FYI Tyler... That little Red thing that the VFW gives out in front of churches and supermarkets is a poppy

I've never seen that, but I never go to churches or supermarkets either

[conartist]

yeah it's the 10th, but I'll let it slide...... I'm not sure why This is a holiday and V-J Day and V-E day aren't as popular.
i bought my poppy weeks ago and they are hoos depends on ya generation knowledge and family involvement i believe ....things have been bad we all lost and we moved on but we remember all those involved ....good call smokie

[steff]

yeah it's the 10th, but I'll let it slide...... I'm not sure why This is a holiday and V-J Day and V-E day aren't as popular.

Are you saying you don't realize why it's a holiday? You don't think all the people who died in 2 world wars deserves a day of rememberance?

I'm forever grateful to them. But believe it or not I don't have a poppy. Usually I end up with about 20 poppies, this year I kept a £10 note behind my bus pass to donate for one and I never even got asked if I wanted one this year nor did I pass any sellers. :(

[Jacx]

i not seen one to buy over here :(


however...we remember!

[Pimp Princess]

Here in the US the VFW sells "buddy poppies" in May on Memorial Day weekend. I just thought that I would clarify.

[Alf uckem]

I got stung for a fiver for a poppy, which i lost about an hour later:$

I will try and get one this morning, i aint payin another fiver though:(

[the silent assassin]

im wearing my poppy PRIDE

[DnD]

my mom harped me for wearing my poppy on a shirt that says "i suffer from CRS. Cant remember S#@T" lol

my outfit wasnt deliberate i mind you

[KoRn]

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest we forget.