tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post2161463470280603062..comments2024-02-09T06:24:16.626+00:00Comments on upside down in cloud: acts of remembranceDru Marlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-5709928844830766652012-11-11T08:08:41.606+00:002012-11-11T08:08:41.606+00:00And so have I found and enjoyed - a year on, thou...And so have I found and enjoyed - a year on, though. Not sure how I missed this last year.Deliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05338581030767010135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-51560155734182112712011-11-13T07:01:16.514+00:002011-11-13T07:01:16.514+00:00thanks, Daphne!thanks, Daphne!Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-22295662907803644622011-11-11T23:01:12.440+00:002011-11-11T23:01:12.440+00:00I've just found your blog and just wanted to s...I've just found your blog and just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed reading it. Enjoyed your poppy verse too!Daphnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469075813149239051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-44435436898638635442011-11-10T10:26:41.451+00:002011-11-10T10:26:41.451+00:00I try and leave all the politics behind with this ...I try and leave all the politics behind with this issue. <br /><br />I look at what the British Legion does and I cough up.<br /><br />Sometimes I don't wear the poppy I get. Sometimes I do. It's never a conscious decision because it's not any kind of a statement, for me at least.<br /><br />It should not be about the poppy, but about the charity. <br /><br />chrissieBchrissieBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495222190059079697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-69346403618226937742011-11-09T02:53:23.105+00:002011-11-09T02:53:23.105+00:00Thanks for that link, Anji. As I recall, there wer...Thanks for that link, Anji. As I recall, there were three memorials in St Malo; to the deportees, the Resistance and the civilian dead. ...looking at David Cameron among the other EU leaders, I wondered what they made of his poppy; a reminder that 'we' had 'won'?<br /><br />That's a disgraceful story, AJ. Funny that they should be so blind to the irony of their thinking him a coward for not conforming, A friend on Flickr tells me his partner once got sent home from school for painting her poppy white. ...your story reminds me of a meeting on one of my old ships, where a colleague of mine, who had exited his ship when it was on fire during the Falklands, met a steward who'd been working on the ship he was evacuated to. It was a nice moment. <br /><br />Thanks, Tim. It certainly felt apropos. I liked that Milne poem quoted by the commenter on your blog. Hadn't seen that before.<br /><br />I'm curious about how the House Teenager's school handle Remembrance Day, Jenny; they've managed to be pretty clueless about so many other things.Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-25738785774659982702011-11-08T22:52:35.548+00:002011-11-08T22:52:35.548+00:00A similar level of bullying to conform for cherrid...A similar level of bullying to conform for cherridy surrounded the first Red Nose days when I was at school. Not very nice.<br /><br />I'm not wearing a poppy simply because the damned things never stay in place on me. My car does have one of the window stickers discretely placed in the corner of the rear windscreen though.<br /><br />Today a colleague was wearing a display poppy as a buttonhole, one of the big fabric ones. It might have looked over the top, but the way she was wearing it it looked extremely stylish.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08027942517258679266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-31541661088859519142011-11-08T13:29:26.056+00:002011-11-08T13:29:26.056+00:00How apt the quotation from Kipling!How apt the quotation from Kipling!Tim Kendallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17917270014209480898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-17482577891904247722011-11-08T11:25:31.165+00:002011-11-08T11:25:31.165+00:00I've not bought a red poppy since the RBL (rig...I've not bought a red poppy since the RBL (right bullying lot) refused to let a friend of mine take part in 'their' parade because he was wearing two poppies - one white and one red. <br /><br />They called him a coward for wearing the white one and said people like him weren't welcome to take part and belittled the memory of 'our brave lads'.<br /><br />He didn't make a fuss. He just went back later to lay his wreath in memory of those he had failed to save when he was on the hospital ship that dealt with the rescued crew of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Coventry_(D118)#25_May_1982" rel="nofollow">HMS Coventry</a>. <br /><br />His experience of war (sorry - conflict) taught him that peace was a better idea. Unlike some.MorningAJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04719744167307369768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-31562651435868195722011-11-08T09:50:35.792+00:002011-11-08T09:50:35.792+00:00I didn't know about white poppies, thank you f...I didn't know about white poppies, thank you for something new; Interestingly enough there are two kinds of war memorials in France, war ones and pacifist ones <br />(http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_aux_morts_pacifiste<br /><br />Sorry it's in french, but it lists where to find them). There was also a big movement against war just after WW1 and some amazing posters were created. Little boys playing with trains rather than guns and so on...<br /><br />18ct gold poppies - how cheap can you get?Anjihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02562210585479814093noreply@blogger.com