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Old 16th Oct 2019, 15:51
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Originally Posted by weemonkey
"Remembrance is a personal thing."

Indeed. Some of us may wish to remember their fallen comrades away from the mass herd instinct (and those hypocrites that are politicians) who wear their poppy as nothing more the dress code of the day.
And the press/ newsreaders/ general dogbodies pertaining to be experts etc who get berated on TV if they don't, that is sort of wrong and degrades the meaning behind it, to have a producer slap one on them to be seen to conform, loses the meaing behind it all..
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