The installation took some time accompanied, I am, sure by quite a bit of media coverage.
"Lest we forget"....How soon they forget....
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!
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?
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.
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. The big war is coming. Those young people who sneer at such things will soon be in uniform and many come home in body bags. WW III will be worse than WW I & II.
“Product of the what education has become.”
Most likely a product of massive third-world immigration and child birth coupled with zero reproduction from the natives. It wasn’t their granddads who were killed in the war, so who cares about a stupid poppy.
When Queen Elizabeth’s mother was married at Westminster Abbey in 1921, she placed her bouquet on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, which is at the entrance. It is bordered with poppies.
She did this in remembrance of her brother who was killed in WWI and is still MIA.
All royal brides since have done the same.
How fast the Snowflakes forget ...
The installation took some time accompanied, I am, sure by quite a bit of media coverage.
"Lest we forget"....How soon they forget....