Originally Posted by
tdracer
Sadly, sometimes the alternative is worse - the trick is knowing when (something our leaders aren't very good at)
Several years ago I was on a business trip to the UK around this time of year. I was unfamiliar with the poppy thing - kept wondering why I keep seeing them everywhere. Eventually I asked a local about it - and upon hearing the answer promptly purchasing one (I don't know if it's still the case, but at that time there were stands in the Underground selling them - for a pound IIRC). I wore it proudly - even when I got back home. Sadly it went missing somewhere along the line...
Ms BB remembers selling poppies outside the Hormel meat packing plant in Austin Minnesota in the late 1950s as workers came off the night shift at 6am.