Wear Your Poppy With Pride.

Discussion in 'All Anniversaries' started by Maywalk, Nov 7, 2006.

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  1. Maywalk

    Maywalk Junior Member

    All Will Be Remembered.

    Remember all those who have fallen in wars within these last hundred years
    Leaving behind their loved ones to grieve and shed their heartbroken tears.
    Many thousands buried in other countries and some without a known grave
    Sacrificing their lives fighting for freedom so that our lives they could save.

    Remember as you go about your daily routine what they all endured for you
    And remember them all with pride in your heart in everything that you do.
    Husbands, lovers, brothers, sons or uncle who lost his life in his freedom fight
    They helped to quell the enemy and to bring the world hope and a ray of light.

    So each and every one of them were heroes who are remembered on this day
    And may the good Lord keep them in his care and help the sorrow go away.
    I wear my poppy with pride as I remember all nations that fought and died
    They took on a mammoth task of freedom for all from which they never shied.

    My poppy is a token of my deepest respect for all who gave me a full life
    As well as those who fought in other wars to stem any on growing strife.
    YES I’m very proud to wear my poppy on this special Remembrance Day
    God Bless the souls of all who lost their lives in any world wide affray.

    Copyright © - Maisie Walker 2003 - All rights reserved
     
  2. Mahratta

    Mahratta Senior Member

    Hello.
    The Poppy's should be on sale all year round, it is hard to get them some years.
    It is not right to bring the poppy's out just for November.
     
  3. Cpl Rootes

    Cpl Rootes Senior Member

    Hello.
    The Poppy's should be on sale all year round, it is hard to get them some years.
    It is not right to bring the poppy's out just for November.

    An excellent idea Mahratta you should E-mail The RBL with that one mate :D
     
  4. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    I don't really agree with the year round Poppy idea.
    I always feel there's something special about the limited remembrance period. A pause to say thank you at a highly appropriate time to those that made the rest of the rat-race year possible.
    Stronger medicine in shorter doses that could be seriously diluted by a year round presence.
    Cheers,
    Adam.
     
  5. Kitty

    Kitty Very Senior Member

    Bought my poppy today, promptly lost it 5 minutes later. Again. Still I have my little enamel pin badge one that I wear year round.
     
  6. 52nd Airborne

    52nd Airborne Green Jacket Brat

    I brought my poppy last week, however, after a few days it's always very battered.
    The RBL have made some pin badges for its members.
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    I think it's a good idea to make the badges available to everyone, as the poppy doesn't last very long.
     

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  7. Kitty

    Kitty Very Senior Member

    I brought my poppy last week, however, after a few days it's always very battered.
    The RBL have made some pin badges for its members.
    View attachment 3956
    I think it's a good idea to make the badges available to everyone, as the poppy doesn't last very long.

    It's only for members? Never knew that. I bought mine at Chatsworth Game Fair off the RBL stand, and have done for the last 2 years. But would be a good idea to sell to everyone. I wear mine all the time.
     
  8. BulgarianSoldier

    BulgarianSoldier Senior Member

    I never seen some one selling "poppy" in Bulgaria.. strange why..
     
  9. Kitty

    Kitty Very Senior Member

    I don't know Dani. It began in America in the early 20s and quickly spread to here. They are sold in the start of November every year to raise money for the Royal British Legion who help all Forces past and present and their dependents.
    The red poppy was chosen as they covered the battlefields of Flanders in WW1. The Poppy Appeal raises millions of pounds each year, all of which is put back into helping the Forces community in this country.
     
  10. Cpl Rootes

    Cpl Rootes Senior Member

    Dani you could make and sell poppys :D
     
  11. BulgarianSoldier

    BulgarianSoldier Senior Member

    Dani you could make and sell poppys :D
    Well it would be kind of hard im not the best sellsman or the best creator of things.If i would done any i would give them for free :)

    :group2:
     
  12. James Harvey

    James Harvey Senior Member

    where do you get the enameled one from seen them for sale on ebay, one sold for £38 it a percentage of sale will go towards RBL but did not say how much, as could be 1% or 99%
     
  13. Kyt

    Kyt Very Senior Member

    I thought it appropriate that the poem be posted:

    In Flanders Fields
    by Canadian army physician Major John McCrae
    1915

    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.
     

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  14. Mahratta

    Mahratta Senior Member

    Hello,
    OK maybe all year round would be too much, but why not 2-3 monts sooner.
    I buy one everytime i see them, but as i said, it is hard to find them some years, and I also say keep them as they are, when they go tatty after a few days, i like to replace it with a new one, by brings out a pin badge, they are sure too loss out every year, as people will not keep giving.
    1 quick question for anyone. If me father-in-law wanted to circle or cross of poppys to place at Plymouth on Sunday, for the loss of his father and crew of the ship, could he get one free of charge?.
     
  15. 52nd Airborne

    52nd Airborne Green Jacket Brat

    where do you get the enameled one from seen them for sale on ebay, one sold for £38 it a percentage of sale will go towards RBL but did not say how much, as could be 1% or 99%

    I've only seen them on Ebay myself, When I brought my Poppy last week, I asked the seller if he had any of the pin badges, he told me they were only being sold to RBL members via their branch.
     
  16. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    <table border="0" width="80%"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffcc" width="100%">Canadian Poppy quarter (25 cents)
    </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom-style: double;" width="26%">[​IMG]</td> <td style="border-bottom-style: double;" width="74%">This is Canada's first circulating coin with a painted poppy in the middle. They were distributed on October 21 2004 throughout Canada. On the top of the coin reads " Canada 2004" and at the bottom it reads "Remember Souvenir." How many of these coins are available has not been disclosed but by the end of the day most of the coins were limited to one per customer. It is unique as it is the first "painted" coin to be placed in circulation. It is a unique coin and comes at a time when our volunteer soldiers of the second world war are fading away but hopefully never forgotten.</td></tr></tbody></table>
     
  17. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Hello,
    1 quick question for anyone. If me father-in-law wanted to circle or cross of poppys to place at Plymouth on Sunday, for the loss of his father and crew of the ship, could he get one free of charge?.
    Contact your local RBL Branch but offer them a Donation for it.
     
  18. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    From: http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-tributes/poppy.htm
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    The first red poppies to come to Australia, in 1921, were made in France. (See left)
    In Australia, single poppies are not usually worn on ANZAC Day - the poppy belongs to Remembrance Day, 11 November. However, wreaths of poppies are traditionally placed at memorials and honour boards on ANZAC Day.
    The red Flanders’ poppy was first described as a flower of remembrance by Colonel John McCrea, who was Professor of Medicine at McGill University of Canada before World War One.
    Colonel McCrea had served as a gunner in the Boer War, but went to France in World War One as a medical Officer with the first Canadian Contingent. He was KIA.
    </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom-style: double;" valign="top" width="17%">Above. Representation of the Poppy by RSL Qld.</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom-style: double;" valign="top" width="17%">Left: A poppy from the post WW1 era, 1 of the first to be imported from France. The metal plate behind the poppy was to be folded over to slip into a pocket or button-hole. <hr> Royal British Legion poppy.
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    The Returned Soldiers and Sailors Imperial League of Australia (the forerunner to the RSL) first sold poppies for (not on) Armistice Day 1921. For this drive, the League imported one million silk poppies, made in French orphanages.
    • Each poppy was sold for a shilling: five pence was donated to a charity for French children, six pence went to the league's own welfare work and one penny went to the league's national coffers.
    Today, the RSL sells poppies for Remembrance Day to raise funds for welfare work, although they have long since ceased to import them from France. (AWM text).



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  19. Brian C

    Brian C Member

    While it's a great idea members of the RBL are entitled to the enamel badge, the rest of us have to remember when handing over our money and recieving a poppy in return this is purely a donnation not a purchase. Not everyone shares the views of the forum members and see the collection tin as 'just another charity'. So what if the poppy goes tatty, falls off or you can't find last years, make another donnation.
    I always wear my poppy with pride and look forward to rememberance Sunday, it's such a sobbering occasion,hero worship is wasted on here today gone tomorrow pop stars and medicore people who are famous for being famous.
     
  20. Kyt

    Kyt Very Senior Member

    While it's a great idea members of the RBL are entitled to the enamel badge, the rest of us have to remember when handing over our money and recieving a poppy in return this is purely a donnation not a purchase. Not everyone shares the views of the forum members and see the collection tin as 'just another charity'. So what if the poppy goes tatty, falls off or you can't find last years, make another donnation.
    I always wear my poppy with pride and look forward to rememberance Sunday, it's such a sobbering occasion,hero worship is wasted on here today gone tomorrow pop stars and medicore people who are famous for being famous.

    Well said Brian.

    Er....what do you and others think of the White poppy. Personnally, I feel that it combines the poppy of rememberance with the desire for peace. But I have heard a lot of people who dismiss it as anti-Rememberance Day
     

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