shropshire 0 #1 November 2, 2006 Hi peeps - who's wearing a Poppy with pride? (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Samurai136 0 #2 November 2, 2006 huh? I'm wearing my NASA hat."Buttons aren't toys." - Trillian Ken Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyflygirl1 0 #3 November 2, 2006 Absolutely! When I get round to buying one that is. . . . .It really bugs me though when you realise that the UK government have paid to get into Europe and now they can over rule our court decisions (read that in the Mail newspaper). So basically we're now being ruled by guys in Brussles. My point is that to me it feels like all those brave men and women who died in the war to save our independance have been stabbed in the back by our own leaders. We've actually paid for them to take our independance. Sorry to get political, wrong forum huh. Just my view, don't want to upset anyone.Fear is Temporary, Regret is Forever! www.myspace.com/byasa Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #4 November 2, 2006 (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanuckInUSA 0 #5 November 2, 2006 QuoteHi peeps - who's wearing a Poppy with pride? They don't do poppies in the US. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #6 November 2, 2006 No but we do and this is an international web site (mostly)... I just want to guage how many of us still Remember. (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #7 November 2, 2006 QuoteQuoteHi peeps - who's wearing a Poppy with pride? They don't do poppies in the US. Actually, some of the veterans groups do still hand out the fabric poppies for Veteran's day.. Quote 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. - Lt. Col John McCraeMike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #8 November 2, 2006 Thanks for that. (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skyn 0 #9 November 2, 2006 Quite simply... Yes i am wearing one (and i buy new ones every year). In my opinion 'remembrance' is extremely important, not only to recognise the sacrifices made in wars past but also in the wars that are being fought right now. Wear your poppy with pride! Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #10 November 2, 2006 what is a poppy ?scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stumpy 284 #11 November 2, 2006 http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/remembrance/history/poppy.shtml For those who don't know....Never try to eat more than you can lift Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mike111 0 #12 November 2, 2006 Me (well not at the moment). but i have one Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eeneR 3 #13 November 2, 2006 We have them here, though I havent seen the people on the roads. Course I didnt get to work till 7pm...so that might be why She is not a "Dumb Blonde" - She is a "Light-Haired Detour Off The Information Superhighway." eeneR TF#72, FB#4130, Incauto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skyrad 0 #14 November 2, 2006 I would be if I could find someone whos selling them. I haven't seen one person this year. In fact I've only seen one person wearing one as well (not including people on the TV)When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy_Copland 0 #15 November 2, 2006 You quoted my favourite Poem. I was about ready to post it myself Edit: Net fucked up, didnt think this one was posted hence the slight repeat below1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy_Copland 0 #16 November 2, 2006 QuoteMcCrae's "In Flanders Fields" remains to this day one of the most memorable war poems ever written. It is a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the Ypres salient in the spring of 1915. Here is the story of the making of that poem: Although he had been a doctor for years and had served in the South African War, it was impossible to get used to the suffering, the screams, and the blood here, and Major John McCrae had seen and heard enough in his dressing station to last him a lifetime. As a surgeon attached to the 1st Field Artillery Brigade, Major McCrae, who had joined the McGill faculty in 1900 after graduating from the University of Toronto, had spent seventeen days treating injured men -- Canadians, British, Indians, French, and Germans -- in the Ypres salient. It had been an ordeal that he had hardly thought possible. McCrae later wrote of it: "I wish I could embody on paper some of the varied sensations of that seventeen days... Seventeen days of Hades! At the end of the first day if anyone had told us we had to spend seventeen days there, we would have folded our hands and said it could not have been done." One death particularly affected McCrae. A young friend and former student, Lieut. Alexis Helmer of Ottawa, had been killed by a shell burst on 2 May 1915. Lieutenant Helmer was buried later that day in the little cemetery outside McCrae's dressing station, and McCrae had performed the funeral ceremony in the absence of the chaplain. The next day, sitting on the back of an ambulance parked near the dressing station beside the Canal de l'Yser, just a few hundred yards north of Ypres, McCrae vented his anguish by composing a poem. The major was no stranger to writing, having authored several medical texts besides dabbling in poetry. In the nearby cemetery, McCrae could see the wild poppies that sprang up in the ditches in that part of Europe, and he spent twenty minutes of precious rest time scribbling fifteen lines of verse in a notebook. A young soldier watched him write it. Cyril Allinson, a twenty-two year old sergeant-major, was delivering mail that day when he spotted McCrae. The major looked up as Allinson approached, then went on writing while the sergeant-major stood there quietly. "His face was very tired but calm as we wrote," Allinson recalled. "He looked around from time to time, his eyes straying to Helmer's grave." When McCrae finished five minutes later, he took his mail from Allinson and, without saying a word, handed his pad to the young NCO. Allinson was moved by what he read: "The poem was exactly an exact description of the scene in front of us both. He used the word blow in that line because the poppies actually were being blown that morning by a gentle east wind. It never occurred to me at that time that it would ever be published. It seemed to me just an exact description of the scene." In fact, it was very nearly not published. Dissatisfied with it, McCrae tossed the poem away, but a fellow officer retrieved it and sent it to newspapers in England. The Spectator, in London, rejected it, but Punch published it on 8 December 1915. Quoted one of my favourite poems 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kbordson 8 #17 November 2, 2006 It is a beautiful poem. It's amazing how words can paint a picture of life and death.... But what holiday is today over there? Why wear the poppies today? Nov 2, All Souls Day Nov 5, Guy Fawkes Day Nov 11, Lord Mayors Show Nov 11, Armistice Day Nov 12, Rememberance Sunday Nov 26, Stirup Sunday Nov 30, St. Andrews Day.... Anyone care to help me out? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakee 1,489 #18 November 2, 2006 QuoteBut what holiday is today over there? Why wear the poppies today? You're right that it is not yet Armistice day or Remembrance sunday yet, but it is usual to wear poppies for a week or two leading up to them as well.Do you want to have an ideagasm? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #19 November 2, 2006 It's not a holiday thing. We wear them up untill Rememberance Day as a sign of respect to the fallen. "The tumult and the shouting dies, The Captains and the the Kings depart. Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice A humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet Lest we forget. Lest we forget." (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #20 November 2, 2006 In Canada we call Nov 11 Remembrance Day. We also wear poppies for a couple of weeks beforehand. They are sold by donation in gas stations, malls etc. The proceeds go to the Waramps society. It used to be to help war vets who had lost limbs during the wars. Later the focus was more on kids who had had accidents; a lot of effort was on palying safe education. I suppose now the focus will shift back to our war injured. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #21 November 2, 2006 QuoteIt's not a holiday thing. We wear them up untill Rememberance Day as a sign of respect to the fallen. "The tumult and the shouting dies, The Captains and the the Kings depart. Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice A humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet Lest we forget. Lest we forget." More excellent prose...thanks!Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #22 November 2, 2006 You're welcome - that was one of Kiplings (I remember some of it from school - a few years ago now). (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakee 1,489 #23 November 2, 2006 QuoteQuoteIt's not a holiday thing. We wear them up untill Rememberance Day as a sign of respect to the fallen. "The tumult and the shouting dies, The Captains and the the Kings depart. Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice A humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet Lest we forget. Lest we forget." More excellent prose...thanks! I realise this is not the time or place but, "Prose, –noun 1. the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse." Excellent it is, prose it is not.Do you want to have an ideagasm? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scoop 0 #24 November 2, 2006 Not wearing a poppy yet but I will be and also laying a wreath at a ceremony next weekend Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #25 November 2, 2006 I'd not realized that... thanks! Serves me right for trying to talk all fancified, huh? Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
