I usually have a ton lying around the house. I still buy em, though. Merlin, do your poppies have a green or black center ? We cahnged it to black some time back. Some people here, I'm not sure if the legion is involved, are making remembrance day beenie babies and stuffed penguins
Poppy Day Here you are CSP, a Canadian and British side by side as they should be. The Canadian one is more red than it shows and was sent to me by an old friend in Edmonton. Also two Canadian Veterans badges with an Afrika Korps Veterans.
Bless them ALL. Sorry to confess my ignorance Merlin, but I had never heard of "Poppy Day" and it's significance in your country. I'll remember that. Tim
November 11th is Veterans Day here in the USA. Memorial Day is the last Monday in May, whatever the actual date is.
poppy day I feel that I may have confused the issue here, the correct title is Remembrance Day, Nov.11th, but as children growing up after the carnage of WW1 we always called it Poppy Day and the name sticks.
Here in Oz it is still known as 'Remembrance Day', not poppy day. I think we have a black centre poppy with a green leaf, but don't take my word on that. I couldnt tell a poppy from a daffodil!
Speaking of which, there is also a 'Daffodil Day', not to be confused with poppy day, but it is in August...
Me too. Too bad you can't find a poppy here in Singapore.It's not "general knowledge" here. Only a handful of survivors and some government ministry will celebrate it by a ceremony at our memorial tower.
Too long to post, but look up Kipling's immortal "Tommy Atkins" Some things never change.... They shall not grow old, as we who are left grow old Age shall not weary them ,not the years condemn At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We WILL remember them
You're right, Ossian, some things never change. And after the presidential election here in the USA next year, I very much fear that they are going to get a whole lot worse.
Poppy Day, Remembrance Day, Armistice Day. When you go home, tell them of us and say, "For your tomorrow we gave our today". "We will remember them".