corydoras 469 Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 (edited) We Shall Keep the Faith Moina Michael, November 1918 Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields, Sleep sweet - to rise anew! We caught the torch you threw And holding high, we keep the Faith With All who died. We cherish, too, the poppy red That grows on fields where valor led; It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies, But lends a lustre to the red Of the flower that blooms above the dead In Flanders Fields. And now the Torch and Poppy Red We wear in honor of our dead. Fear not that ye have died for naught; We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought In Flanders Fields. Edited November 11, 2015 by corydoras 1 The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!Mi, ch’fais toudis à m’mote Link to post Share on other sites
Vagabond 1021 Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 (edited) Yes, very apt. Who needs to remember ? Evidently quite a lot of people. Yesterday I had to attend my local GP surgery to give a blood sample. By chance my appointment was for 11 am. I noted approvingly a card prominently displayed, announcing the staff would observe a two minute silence - which it did, whilst we were still in the waiting room. Afterwards ( it was by then about 11.30) we had errands to do in the town, which resulted in my arrival back at our car ten minutes before Norma. I spent that ten minutes leaning on some nearby railings and casually observing the world passing by. After a few minutes, I was observing that world more closely, as I realised that nobody, but nobody, was wearing a poppy. There was, however, a poppy seller standing just outside the Waitrose store. I did not see anyone buy one. Is this a case of Kipling's words, ....It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and chuck him out, the brute, But it's "saviour of his country" when the guns begin to shoot.... and nobody amongst Crowborough's affluent shoppers had worn a poppy that day - or have I been unaware for the last seventy years or so, that it is customary to remove poppies once the two-minute silence has been observed ? I have always thought one wore the poppy "until the going down of the sun" Edited November 12, 2015 by Vagabond RNLI Governor World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 . Certhia's world species - 215 Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501 "Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all" - Plato ...only things like fresh bait and cold beer... Link to post Share on other sites
poledark 50 Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 Dave, have to agree with you, but..they are awkward things to fix to your clothes. I have lost two this year, both must have fell off while fishing, just left with the pin. Den "When through the woods and forest glades I wanderAnd hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur,And hear the brook, and feel the breeze;and see the waves crash on the shore,Then sings my soul.................. for all you Spodders. https://youtu.be/XYxsY-FbSic Link to post Share on other sites
John S 330 Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 I always give money, sometimes take a poppy, but never hardly ever wear it. John SQuanti Canicula Ille In Fenestra Species caught in 2017 Common Ash, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, White Willow. Species caught in 2016: Alder, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Crab Apple, Left Earlobe, Pedunculate Oak, Rock Whitebeam, Scots Pine, Smooth-leaved Elm, Swan, Wayfaring tree. Species caught in 2015: Ash, Bird Cherry, Black-Headed Gull, Common Hazel, Common Whitebeam, Elder, Field Maple, Gorse, Puma, Sessile Oak, White Willow. Species caught in 2014: Big Angry Man's Ear, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Common Whitebeam, Downy Birch, European Beech, European Holly, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, Wych Elm.Species caught in 2013: Beech, Elder, Hawthorn, Oak, Right Earlobe, Scots Pine. Species caught in 2012: Ash, Aspen, Beech, Big Nasty Stinging Nettle, Birch, Copper Beech, Grey Willow, Holly, Hazel, Oak, Wasp Nest (that was a really bad day), White Poplar.Species caught in 2011: Blackthorn, Crab Apple, Elder, Fir, Hawthorn, Horse Chestnut, Oak, Passing Dog, Rowan, Sycamore, Willow.Species caught in 2010: Ash, Beech, Birch, Elder, Elm, Gorse, Mullberry, Oak, Poplar, Rowan, Sloe, Willow, Yew. Link to post Share on other sites
Steve Walker 941 Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 I didn't take one this year, though I donated. Not much point wearing it round the house. Link to post Share on other sites
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