Posted on 11/02/2017 7:33:29 AM PDT by C19fan
A third of young people will refuse to wear a poppy this year or have doubts about doing so, researchers said yesterday. While four out of five people will join in remembering the war dead, allegiance to the tradition appears to be lessening among the young. More than one in five of 18 to 24-year-olds say they will not wear a poppy and a further one in ten are unsure if they will.
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In the US, the VFW and other groups would always sell poppies on the street around Memorial day. But I haven’t seen it in a dozen years.
This is what happens when war becomes a profession, and not a sacrifice. The average person on the streets has had no skin in the game for decades.
We talk about honor and valor. The governments send their “all volunteer” professional army to do their bidding—often without the consent of the governed.
The average Joe has no concept of what is going on. They feel good because they send $20 to some organization “helping” vets and they show off the $2 blanket they get in return.
Make warmaking a “family event” and you will have poppies taking on new meaning.
Because every single fallen solider that poppy represents were just itching to grab a gun and get shelled, poisoned, bayonetted simply to fill the urge to kill a German/Austro-Hungarian.
I weep for my child and my grandchildren.
What percentage of them aren’t naive British?
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.
Product of an affluent, young society that has never (thank G-d) known war, is ignorant of history, was raised on Pacifism and knows only conspicuous consumption. Take away their Latte coffees and cell phones and THEN we will see real action, revolt and change!
“The average person on the streets has had no skin in the game for decades.”
Nailed it. Explains all the whining over wars as if hearing about them happening is just too much to bear.
A third of the people 18 to 24 are completely ignorant of what the poppy signifies. And it’s not in the slightest glorification of war. Idiots.
When I was in undergrad, the SJW student organisations literally chased the Legion poppy sellers off campus, and then demanded that everyone wearing red poppies remove them, and replace them with white poppies.
There was the standard, shrill gobbledygook about ‘glorifying war’, imperialism, colonialism, racism, islamophobia and zionism.
It made national news at the time, and there was a lot of outrage from ordinary folks. Nevertheless, the legion eventually abandoned its efforts to operate the poppy appeal on campus.
Will they wear Muslim garb?
“I wonder what moron(s) told them it glorified war. It’s a really sad symbol
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.”
Found the last stanza of John McRae’s poem.
...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.
KYPD
the Brits and Canadians still don them as a reminder of the cannon fodder their ancestors let them be a part of.
The average person on the streets has had no skin in the game for...
The average person on the streets just got run down by a Home Depot truck by a guy brought here by politicians who use the media to tell us to pretend we have no skin in the game
Might want to read Daniel Greenfield from today:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3600836/posts
"You may not be interested in Islam, but Islam is interested in you!"
When I watch British or Canadian TV, I’m always pleasantly surprised to see the poppies on TV presenters this time of year. I remember (and it seems like a very long time ago) when poppies were available here in the US just about everywhere. I don’t think the local veterans’ groups even have them anymore.
They used to have tables outside our grocery stores every year. I think I bought my last one in 2006 or so.
Third of people aged 18 to 24 could refuse to wear the poppy this year ‘because it glorifies war’
Lack of education and common sense.
It honors the sacrifice of those that fought in the war! There is a difference.
Just another incidence of the far, radical left trying to change history, and attack traditions.
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