White Poppy and Rememberance

In Flanders Fields

John McCrae
1872 –
1918
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.

The red poppy is worn because of the many deaths in poppy fields, no one was buried beneath white poppies .

I would wear a white poppy, which stands for peace, and commemorates all victims of all wars. My brother wears one, and finds it stirs more interest than hostility..

I am watching the ceremony at the Cenotaph and marvelling at the choreography. When do they rehearse? It is so complex, and nobody makes a mistake.

I respect what you are doing, and would never question or try to argue with you, but I wear a red Poppy and I always will.

Oh well done Franbern I have to say that I am seeing more evidence this year of the white poppy. More people are wearing them and there is more on social media. It reminds us that the most lives lost in wars are civilians.

Well, it hasn’t happened yet Jackiest has it?
Wearing only a white peace poppy instead of the usual red for remembrance is your choice franbern and while you were thinking about the cries of the children in Gaza I hope you spared a moment to think of the cries of children in Israel on the 7th October cruelly tied up and murdered by hamas.
Also if you stand around in the High St and hand out laminated sheets then you will likely get some remarks you may not like.

There is no point diligently remembering the people who have given so much for us if we don’t do something about it or we will still be standing there in another hundred years time honouring yet more dead. The greatest honour we can give to those who died is to prevent it happening again. Governments need to stop solving their squabbles by fighting and killing.