OT - Poppies and Poppyfields

[poppyfields11]

Off topic but certainly the right day to do it!

Did you buy a Poppy this year?  To whose memory do you dedicate it?

Mine to my Grandfather - KIA WWI, My father - severely wounded WWII, and all the lads in Ireland who were

responsible for defusing IED's and who tried once too often!  RIP fellas!

[the-geezer]

To all that served.

[Anonymous]

I remeber, dedicate and respect, in my own private way.

I buy a poppy as my way of contributing to the cost of help for those service personel, both past and present who find themselves in need in whatever way.

Whilst I truly beleive in what the poppy stands for and represents, I feel that the poppy apeal itself, like so many other fine charitable events, is something that should never have had to be formed, what the poppy apeal pays for along with all the other fine work the Royal British Liegon does, should be provided by the the British government, something I doubt any taxpayer would begrudge.

[millielilac]

I have always bought a poppy ....at one time they used to sell them in primary schools and remember taking my pennies to school as a child....

I buy one every year , now a village member brings them around the doors. I do not buy it remembrance of a family member ...I just donate out of respect...

[paulwyb123]

I have been buying poppies since I was 5 but never again after

last year when I saw a poppy seller humiliate pensioner by

loudly refusing to sell one because the guy only had 84p

and the seller said he had to pay £1 and to come back when he had

saved up enough.

I complained to the british legion who said it was regretteble and they

would have a word with the seller but she was still selling them a week later

[saasher2012]

I always buy a poppy for each of my family who are no longer here to buy one for themselves all of whom served in the armed forces. & lay them in the cemetery in their & others honour, but I will only buy them from an old soldier not in the shops.