Pride in your country

I like both flags & poppies

I think what OP is trying to say is that it it so much more uplifting to see these beautifully hand made poppies and post box toppers, signifying “Lest We Forget”, remembering and celebrating the great sacrifices our service personnel made, fighting alongside many other nations so we could all be free.

Frankly, I’d rather see these than tatty cheap England flags, which for some signify this ridiculous “take our country back” rhetoric

Indeed so Cossy.
Motives and intentions are everything.

Pleas do not assign your opinions to other people. I like to see flags, however tatty, and poppies, even the home-made ones.

Please

MayBee70

Perhaps the people who make them are the ones that remove them when they no longer look their best? Unlike the flags…

Yes I've got no idea who has removed them but they have nearly all gone. They weren't anything to do with poppies so others might be different.

I liked the poppies at the Tower of London, I took GC to see that and it was quite spectacular.

I wear my poppy with pride for various reasons - obviously to remember all those who paid the ultimate price in wars and conflicts, but also in gratitude that my own son returned safe and well from his tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq. I personally know families who were not as fortunate, and I always think of them in particular at this time of year.

ViceVersa ditto

MayBee70

Perhaps the people who make them are the ones that remove them when they no longer look their best? Unlike the flags…

My WI removes ours, MayBee. The ladies save what they can for future projects. Recycling and all that.

Sarnia

MayBee70

Perhaps the people who make them are the ones that remove them when they no longer look their best? Unlike the flags…

My WI removes ours, MayBee. The ladies save what they can for future projects. Recycling and all that.

Thanks. Do they need donations of wool? It never crossed my mind to give to anything like that.

Poppies mean only one thing - Remembrance. Lest we forget.
Yes, but also for peace.

Remembrance does not glorify war and its symbol, the red poppy, is a sign of both Remembrance and hope for a peaceful future.

Royal British Legion

Well done, purplepixie for all your knitted poppies.

Simon Armitrage's poem "In retrospect" (which I think is a masterpiece) deals very adequately with the imagery of poppies.
I'm sure many if not all GsNetters are familiar with it.
If not , and you have a few moments, give it a whirl.

After the stunning performances by Jake and Luke, winning gold and silver medals at the World Gymnastics championships today I would happily wave any number of flags to celebrate them I still don't see the point draping them round the streets to say "Oh look I'm British"

StoneofDestiny

*I think what OP is trying to say is that it it so much more uplifting to see these beautifully hand made poppies and post box toppers, signifying “Lest We Forget”, remembering and celebrating the great sacrifices our service personnel made, fighting alongside many other nations so we could all be free*.

Frankly, I’d rather see these than tatty cheap England flags, which for some signify this ridiculous “take our country back” rhetoric

Indeed so Cossy.
Motives and intentions are everything.

Yes. Its a truly beautiful and committed way of saying, "Remember, and let there be peace in our very troubled world"

It is remembering sadly the effects of war not just in the UK anymore, its a huge wave of a cry for "peace in our time"