Remembrance Sunday.

[JackButler]

I've bought & worn a poppy every year since I was 12 (with my own money) & one of my fondest memories is being that years chosen grandchild to wear Grandads medals on my Sunday best & hold his hand while they laid the wreaths.

I've always made it a point of principle that I only ever buy my poppy from an ex-soldier, that rare weekend I willingly agree to go on the shopping expedition, shortly before the 11th day of the 11th month.

You cannot make this shit up, but in '85 I was working as a contractor in the Foreign Office building on King Charles Street W1. A young lad very much under the wing of my supervisor 'Fran', the biggest & hairiest biker type that I have ever known. In the run up to 11/11 me & Fran watched the rehearsals & preperations for the weekends main event at the Cenotaph from our window overlooking all the action.

Fran shared with me something that has never left me. As a young boy Fran used to catch the school bus from a point just outside the village church where the war memorial was placed. He told me how he & his bestest school mate once used a felt tip pen to 'alter' the names carved into the granite column & how at the time that was the funniest thing in the whole wide world.

He told me how about 10am he was dragged out of lessons at school to report to the headmaster. Just about everyone in his village had seen him defacing that monument & just about all of 'em had grassed him up.

He said he was sat outside the headmasters office with his bestest mate thinking "this is fun" when his dad & his uncle walked in. Fran told me that his dad had never raised a hand to him, never beat him & had only ever used logic to discipline him. "But by God you knew when he was angry".

Fran told me his father walked out of the headmasters office right past him, never gave him a second glance. It was left to his uncle to tell him to jump in the back of the Landy.

Fran had to stand in front of that monument while his dad & uncle scrubbed off his grafitti, he begged them to let him help put it right but they wouldn't listen.

He told me how his father finally acknowledged him by holding his shoulders & telling him to stand here & not to come home untill he can recite every name on that monument.

Fran then recited to me every one of the names on his village memorial.

That my friends is remembrance.
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[BigTim]

Not many (if any) poppy sellers this year.

I was just in Argos and they had a collection box so got a poppy.

Its only one i give money to.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

You could always just give to the Royal British Legion appeal directly rather than virtue signalling with a poppy.
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Faggits back.

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[Nobby the Bastard]

It actually started after the ww1 and it commemorates the armistice that started 9n the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

The number of people alive that can remember it happening can be counted on one hand and I doubt any took part..
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[Nobby the Bastard]

I didn't say I dislike remembrance of those that fought and died to maintain our safety and freedom. It would be a bit stupid of me to do so bearing in mind the industry I work in. I just disagree with the need for charities in the first place. Taxation should pay for those who are in need but then I'm I good socialist.

I always attend the remembrance parade at work (they are currently still having one, probably live streamed.)

I would point out that the most recent war with appreciable casualties on or side was the Afghan one.
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[wr6133]

I wear a poppy but I have mixed feelings as Nobby makes a pretty good point, we shouldn't need the British Legion. We do but we shouldn't.

I usually attend a memorial on the 11th but never wear my Medals the hollow, robotic, "thank you for your service" crap from random people annoys me.

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