08-11-2011, 08:09 PM
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Re: Poppies do you wear one?
Yes, always wear one every year. When I was at school children used to come round to the classrooms selling them. The poppies had wire in them and us girls used to take them apart and feather the petals into many layers and put them back together again.
09-11-2011, 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by dandysmom
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I feel bad ... after I mentioned earlier I couldn't find them here any more friend on Catsey sent me one .... and in the confusion of packing and moving it didn't come...... 
We always went to the Cenotaph service as it was a bit of a reunion as well and several of the lads did not wear them but the fact that they were there was all that mattered.
I don't know if it still happens on the 11th but a few years ago the good folks at Ypres used to hand out poppy petals to be taken to the Menin Gate.
When you got there they were collected up but during the silence for remembrance they floated down from the roof. It is the most extraordinary and humbling yet eerie thing to have seen.
09-11-2011, 11:29 PM
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I've always worn one also, but there have been none on sale at any of the shops I go in this year, which I'm saddened by.Not only do I wear them for the fallen heros of WWI and WWII, but for the three soldiers with whom my husband and I were friendly with, when their Landrover drove over a road bomb in Londonderry in 1970, and also for the fallen in the Middle Eastern wars as well.
09-11-2011, 11:48 PM
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They are so young some of them. On the news this evening it was announced that a young lad from the First Yorks had been killed in Afghanistan. Part of my husband's job is to train the soldiers to repair their own tanks out there and he'd trained that regiment recently, so sad.When I came out of Tescos this evening we bought two more poppies. The poor old chap was standing out in the half lit cold entrance where the trollies are kept. I asked him why he didn't stand in the warm shop just a few feet away, he just smiled and didn't answer. Is there some ghastly rule forbidding this?
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