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Remember No Not fireworks
It's poppy time again Wear your poppy with pride
Most of us have a Relative that fought in a conflict old or modern
So buy a poppy TODAY :)
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Hi Graceland
Iv'e been trying to find one to use as my profile picture,havn't found a nice one yet ???
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Well as long as you Buy one !!
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Already bought mine.
Love your poppy picture.
Christina
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good well done white lady :D
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Hi Graceland I agree with you, we should all buy a Poppy.
We have just had our yearly quota of Poppies, delivered to our School. I guess the kids will again make us proud and buy them all up, as they always do, and give a healthy balance to the Appeal. Come on folks lets Remember Our Parents and Grand Parents. Oh by the way Graceland. I thought I was the Kings No 1 fan. ::)
Dave
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Hi Graceland I agree with you, we should all buy a Poppy.
We have just had our yearly quota of Poppies, delivered to our School. I guess the kids will again make us proud and buy them all up, as they always do, and give a healthy balance to the Appeal. Come on folks lets Remember Our Parents and Grand Parents. Oh by the way Graceland. I thought I was the Kings No 1 fan. ::)
Dave
Better Put an Elvis picture on then !!
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Wear your Poppy with Pride If we all buy one on here it will make a diff :D
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My 4 yr old has just started school and she came home and asked
'Mum can you give me 20p tomorrow?"
"Ok but what's it for?"
"A beautiful flower that I can put on my cardigan"
I don't want to teach her about the horror of war just yet but she went to school with a pound clutched in her grubby palm to get her beautiful flower :'( :-*
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Oh it made me smile this morning - my daughter of 7 was so excited to go to school with her money so that she could buy a poppy. :)
I asked her if she knew what a poppy was for and she proudly told me for the soldiers who died in the war.
Lemon
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Hi Graceland
Iv'e been trying to find one to use as my profile picture,havn't found a nice one yet ???
Nice Picture Well done
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Of the two I wear on the day,one has a white center,for those "Shot At Dawn".Not many querie,s about them though,make,s you think!
Goggy. :(
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I too will be wearing my Poppy with pride.
I am actually on my third one this year, they have a habit of getting lost. There doesn't seem to be as many people wearing them this year. Also I have never seen the 'shot at dawn' ones.
Love the pictures Graceland.
Daisy
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I too Have always bought my poppy usually they call at the door knowone been yet but I will buy one
Elizabeth
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I've had my poppy for a few days now but like devondaisy I have not seen many people wearing them. Perhaps I'll see more at the weekend.
Nanny Jan
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I'm going to buy my poppy at work tomorrow night. There's a box of them and a collection box on my Reception desk :)
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Always have so many left at home I just put money into the collection now...J.J.
(http://www.members.shaw.ca/remember/Images/poppy.GIF)
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Lloydy
love your picture :D
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It is lovely, isn't it?
I found it courtesy of Google ;D
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Yes Its Great :D
And Your wearing your poppy with pride ???
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Nice one Lloydy, Just a pity they don't produce any posters like that today
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I remember growing up there was always someone selling poppies this time of year and everyone wore them. I would beg my mom to buy me one, not knowing what they meant, but they were pretty. I have not seen one soul selling them or anyone wearing them in my little corner of the world. And this as my village is preparing to unveil a Veterans' Memorial on Saturday. ???
Kath
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I too also buy my poppy and wear with great pride.. It always makes me think of my grand parents etc.
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Remember a Friend--- Armistice Day
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other
students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name.
Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each
of their classmates and write it down.
It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and
as the students left the room, each one handed in the papers.
That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a
separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual.
On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire
class was smiling. "Really?" she heard whispered. "I never knew that I
meant anything to anyone!" and, "I didn't know others liked me so much." were most of the comments.
No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on.
Several years later, one of the students was killed on Active Service and his teacher attended the funeral of that special student. She had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. He looked so handsome, so mature.
The church was packed with his friends. One by one those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin The teacher was the last one to bless the coffin.
As she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came up to her. "Were you Mark's math teacher?" he asked. She nodded: "yes." Then he said: "Mark talked about you a lot."
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After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates went together to a
luncheon. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting to speak with his teacher.
"We want to show you something," his father said, taking a wallet out of
his pocket. "They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it."
Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him.
"Thank you so much for doing that," Mark's mother said. "As you can see, Mark treasured it."
All of Mark's former classmates started to gather around. Charlie smiled
rather sheepishly and said, "I still have my list. It's in the top drawer
of my desk at home."
Chuck's wife said, "Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album."
"I have mine too," Marilyn said. "It's in my diary."
Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group "I carry this with me at all times," Vicki said and without batting an eyelash, she
continued: "I think we all saved our lists."
That's when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again.
The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will
end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be.
So please, tell the people you love and care for, that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.
And One Way To Accomplish This Is: Send this message.
:)
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What a lovely story Graceland, you done well there. Just to inform the forum our kids collected over £200 in our Poppy appeal at the college. Seems like the youth of today are not as bad as we think. Well done kids.
Dave
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Hi
I did manage to get a poppy to lay upon the local Cenotaph
As very soon there will be no Great War veterans left at all I am reminded of
these words written by JRR Tolkien - himself a Great War veteran
- in the Appendices of Lord of The Rings
'...An end was come in Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring'
We will remember them - Lest we forget