I can understand how proud you are of your daughter, trying to make a positive out of a dreadful negative.
In recent years I have bought RBL wristbands instead of poppies, because the flowers always used to end up rather battered and looked scruffy. I have this year's 90th anniversary bands already for me and the grandchildren (bought on line).
' We will remember them.' 
That is so sad granny-a.
You are right to be proud of her. Lovely little grandson too. 
Bless them both. x
I can barely see to type for tears running down my face. You have a daughter in a million and William has a wonderful Mummy. He will grow up very proud of his Daddy as you must be, but your daughter shows a rare courage of her own.
Your daughter is obviously a very special person and I think you are too for bringing her up so well. Bless you all,I will be thinking of your gs when I buy my poppy.
grannya if your Daughter has the same response from all the people who have viewed that news item the RBL funds will soar this year, I cant see to type this,she is a very brave young woman and your Grandson is gorgeous.
I always buy a poppy but this year when I wear my poppy I will be thinking of your Daughter and all the familys who have lost someone dear to them.
Once again Gransnetters - thank you so much for your lovely comments and I know you will be generous when the 'poppy tin' comes round. Today, amidst all the hype of TV, radio and newspaper interviews my daughter was conscious that her husband's headstone was finally being put in place by the MOD - another milestone in her journey. So yes, I shed a tear today too.
Bless you GA and your lovely brave daughter and grandson.
I lost my Mum two years ago but she always put £5 in the poppy tin even though there were times when she really couldn't afford it. Although she has gone I will always put 'Mum's fiver' in the tin every year (and I put a poppy on her grave) in addition to my own donation, simply because I know how much good the RBL do.
I wish you and all your family all the love, prayers and support in the world and pray constantly for an end to all these futile wars that are taking so many of our wonderful men and woman needlessly from their families. Not only our men and women - all life lost in war is so dreadfully sad. When will world leaders realise this? May God bless your family and all those affected.
This morning my husband accompanied our daughter to visit the grave to see the new headstone. She was exhausted last night after travelling up to London the night before, getting up before 6am and doing more than two dozen media interviews before taking the train home.
Thanks for kind comments and your generous response (never doubted it).
As a family we are all very grateful for the support we've received from the RBL, at both the national and the local level. I'm so pleased that we're able to give a little back. I shall be rattling a tin on the High Street next week and will accompany my daughter to the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall - where she will be taking part in the programme.
Yes I will be buying a poppy for the all the men and women we have lost or have been injured over all the years of terrible wars, but if I may also for my wonderful dad. At the start off WW2 my dad tried to sign on along with his best mate, dad was not passed fit to join up but his mate was.
The reason dad was not accepted was because he had hammer toes. Dad went on to join the local defence force.
He was so ashamed that he was not in what he called the" real army ", that he hid this fact from me for many years it was only when he became old and frail that he broke down in tears he told me all about it. He said his friend had died while on active service, he said it should have been him there with him and so he didn't see himself as a real man.
He worked on the farms along with the land army girls so I my mind he did a very important job but he would not accept that .
Dad is no longer with me , but to me he was the most loving ,kind ,gentle, funny dad any daughter could have wished for
How sad that your dad felt that way, Annika. He sounds like a lovely man. I was lucky to have mine around during the war, because he was in a reserved occupation, making explosive materials. When at home, he spent a lot of time in the garden 'digging for victory' with a bit of help from me 
. He was also the Captain of the local 'Dad's Army' and I can well remember the VE Day parade, when I was four and a half, when he marched at the head of his soon-to-be-disbanded little troop.
I always wear a poppy in November. When we were at school, the prefects came round selling them. There were three kinds - little ones, much like the ones we buy today - they were a penny; middle sized ones, more petals and a leaf, for 6d; and big ones for 1/-. This price differential led to a bit of unsavoury competition! After many years, I was the prefect selling them round the classrooms, and wearing a big one...
I've just read this:
Young Muslims are planning to turn up at London's rail and underground stations in force - to collect money for the Poppy Appeal. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association will again be helping The Royal British Legion as a mark of good citizenship and a testament to the Islamic edict of demonstrating loyalty to your country. More than 100 volunteers from the group will be stationed at over 40 Zone 1 train and tube stations in the city of London on Saturday 29th October and Monday 31st October. They will be hoping to raise more than the £20,000 they collected last year.
How encouraging. 
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