The Red Poppy was inspired by the First World War.
So it was. But it has come to represent more than that in the intervening years.
Why do you get so agitated by the White Poppy?
I'm not agitated by the white poppy, annoyed perhaps, but not agitated - what I actually said is that it saddens me: saddens me that there are those who choose to turn an act of rememberance into a political protest against war. It is they who are the agitated.
The rest of us remember the sacrifices of those who paid the ultimate price and that too is a protest against war. Stand silent for two minutes on the 11th and think about it. My father weeps quietly when he remembers the fallen, for some of them fell beside him.
The vast majority of those folk the Poppy remembers were NOT defending anyone’s freedom!
The vast majority of those who fell were doing their duty. Please don't disparage their intentions; my father is pretty clear on why he volunteered for the navy in 1939.
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