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Re: Please buy a poppy

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:53 pm
by bristolian
I have just re-read most of the posts on this topic. I think it raises some really insightful points. Thank you. I just wish you could take truckloads of eejuts from any of our towns and have some veterans talk to them in places like Tyne Cot or at Thiepval or the Menin Gate. Maybe I'm naive but some good might come of it. or are these kids just 'lost' with nothing beyond their perspective of themselves.

Re: Please buy a poppy

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:09 pm
by randyandy
Think I'll just refer you back to the comment made to me by the British Legion and let things rest with that.

If you want you can ring them and explain how perfectly justified the actions of the scum are and that they should not be deeply saddened by their mindless activities more celebrate that their colleagues gave their lives so that the scum could be so disrespectful to their sacrifice in future years.

!idontbelieveit!


Play for today Radio Four

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:35 pm
by BeestonBoy
Wonderfull play today,very moving

Listen here




Re: Please buy a poppy

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 6:26 pm
by jimslip
lara always buys poppies for both of us each year. She thinks our war veterans truely deserve it. They risked our lives for us and where we live is The star and Garter home for all the war elderly and the future war elderly so shes sees exactly where her moeny goes.


Re: Please buy a poppy

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:32 am
by mrmcfister
Remember them today and perhaps buy another poppy if you lost your first....

Re: Please buy a poppy

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:53 am
by BeestonBoy
warren zevon rip wrote:

> Anyone else going on a parade tomorrow? Never done this before,
> but we are having a big effort in our town to encourage younger
> folk along - so our school's Battlefields Tour kids and adults
> are going to join the parade to the ceremony.


Had to work this morning so was unable to attend either my local parade or my home town parade which was a shame. At eleven we did turn every thing off and stand for the two minutes silence as we do every year. Its strange no one ever mentions it either before or after,we just do it.

Any way how did it go Wazza? Well I hope. Its funny here this afternoon as I drove home all the pubs are packed with veterans on the razz. Well all the best to them,eh?

BB