British Poppy Appeal 2021 - What Is It?

Always a worth while appeal and they get my donation every year. Thanks for posting.

 

A subject that is hugely important to me; great post. The only small objection I have (I know.....nitpicking....) is that it is not veterans' day - this is in June (now called Armed Forces Day) and celebrates the living veterans and currently serving members of the armed forces, rather than remembering the dead.

 

Ah - I thought they had Memorial Day in May as their equivalent to our Remembrance Day and then Veterans Day on 11th November so the other way round to the UK. But anyway; definitely not here to split hairs over a great cause and a great post made by yourself. I thought that you meant that the UK called it veterans day as well as remembrance day in your original post!

 

A most worthy cause @Judd Dredd

Might I add a link to the the history of the unknown warrior at Westminster Abbey? It seems appropriate to me and is an interesting read.
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/unknown-warrior

 

It's a bloody shame here in NI, wearing a poppy is seen as sectarian in some places

 

We have Veterans Day and Memorial Day, no Remembrance Day. Veterans Day is for the living, and Memorial Day is for the deceased. Veterans Day is when everyone here goes around issuing condescending "thank you for your service" to vets they run across and Memorial Day is when everyone here goes around issuing condescending "thank you for your service" to vets they run across because they're either too stupid to know the difference or too complacent to run it down.

The American Legion used to give out poppies but you don't really see that anymore. It's much more of a Brit thing these days. "In Flanders Field" et al.

 

Okay, I’m a Yank but it’s a lovely and important tradition in my eyes.

I have a couple of magnetic poppies that I put on the tank of the Speed Twin every year; there’s my bike parked at work this morning.

Also, it’s great to see poppies on all the Premier League unis (even the refs).

 

That reminds me, I still need to slap on my tail tidy.

 

Yes been and got my badge and poppy. But thanks Judd Dredd. People should be proud to wear their Poppies for all our Veterans.
Joe.

 

https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/ways-to-give/donate

 

Years ago, poppy sellers were were easy to come by in town but not so much these days. I guess they now rely more on internet donations. You could buy a large poppy to stick on the front of your car but I've not seen one for the last few years. You don't have to buy a poppy to donate of course.

For anyone who holds remembrance Sunday dear and is unable to visit the Allied War Cemeteries in northern France/Belgium, the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas is well worth a visit.

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke is the verse that symbolises Remembrance Day for me and always brings a lump to my throat.


If I should die, think only this of me:

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England. There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,

A body of England's, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.


And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.