The Red, White and Purple Poppy.
Wonderful words and thoughts shared.
I do not want to upset anyone but as we draw near to Rememberance Day I just wanted to share my feelings on the poppies we wear. I wrote this back in 2018.
There are more than one, these days, the red to remember the dead, the white for peace. The white to remember the conscientious objector. During WW1 and WW2 many thought these men were cowards. I do feel they were brave, enough to stand up for their beliefs. Many were tried and shot for not taking up arms. Many spent the war as medics and stretcher bearers unarmed or in the mines though of course not all wartime miners were objctors.
What ever you think, the wars killed them irrespective of their principles. I respect the Red and the White.
The Red and the White.
Why
Argue
Both were brave
Each had their own
Principles to up
Hold. Neither…
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The Feminists were also at the forefront of the movement to shame men into volunteering to fight by giving any man they saw on the street who wasn’t in uniform a white flower.
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The world was never kind my friend.
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It never is so one just has to make the best of it.
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The Feminists who were demanding the vote for women at the time did not want the common man in England to have the vote – not all men actually had the right to vote. Despite the fact that it was the common men who were being sent overseas to die in the trenches the Feminists wanted to deny them the right to choose the leaders who were sending them to die.
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Thank you for explaining the colors of the poppies. I heard that Whole Foods prohibits its employees from wearing poppies for some reason. Sad that there’s no allowance of respect for soldiers who sacrificed their lives.
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I liked the information also. I knew poppies had meaning. Hello my friend.
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