When will the poppy be removed?

Edinburghlass_2

Please lets not continue this today of all days.

RobertoMoir

Edinburghlass wrote: »

Please lets not continue this today of all days.

I agree. While I agree firmly with Nasa's detracters about the importance of the poppy and remembering our fallen, I think there's something a little distasteful about using the "someone died so you could have free speech" defence to villify someone who is exercising that free speech. The replies stopped being a defence of rememberence sunday and its symbols and started being an excuse to "beat up" on Nasa some time ago and I think thats a shame.

jamespir

at the end of the day original op is a clot if it wasnt for those that fought during the world wars we wouldnt have this site or we could be living totally different lives

the poppy is there to rember them not the wars

Casperthefriendlyghost

OMG! I just thanked NASA for his post by accident! Didn't mean to, now I can't take it back, I'm so sorry peeps. I'm horrified as I wear a poppy too, please don't shout at me! Didn't mean to, swear it! I pressed the quote button, but got the thanx button!

Casper
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MothballsWallet

I have always found the Remembrance Sunday service moving, and the last couple of years I have watched it on BBC1. This year, being no different, it moved me to tears. My great uncle was one of those who sacrificed his life in WW2 to free us from the threat of Hitler and his Nazi party.

I do not agree with the politicians who send our servicemen and women to foreign lands on some stupid whim (or for a black liquid to power their limos in the case of Iraq), but I want to back them to the hilt.

I am in no way brave enough to do what they do for us every day. I just wish our government would just bring them home now.

And, yes, under this exterior there is an emotional old get

Dumbledore55

Enfieldian

Don't lower yourself to NASA's level

Enfieldian

Dumbledore55 wrote: »

Enfieldian

Don't lower yourself to NASA's level

Point taken. Thank you.

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jinky67

[FONT=verdana, geneva, helvetica]In Flanders Fields[/FONT] [FONT=verdana, geneva, helvetica]John McCrae (1915)[/FONT] [FONT=verdana, geneva, helvetica]
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.[/FONT]

tonypop

As long as we all remember it was British servicemen that died,and not just English. I was watching a documentary on sky one which constantly mentioned the battles between the english and the germans,which is completley inacurrate!!

jinky67

tonypop wrote: »

As long as we all remember it was British servicemen that died,and not just English. I was watching a documentary on sky one which constantly mentioned the battles between the english and the germans,which is completley inacurrate!!

So long as we remember it was COMMONWEALTH servicemen;)

even that is not accurate, there were "enemy" service personnel died too, we should also remember them