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Poppies and rememberance

TheCatWoman

Do you wear a poppy and go to rememberance services?

I feel really ambivalent about them and it. I wish there was more focus on those who came/come back brokens. I say this as the Grandaughter of one of the "lions led by donkey's", my Grandda suffered from what we now know as PTSD, he sacrificed his sanity and the legacy still runs through our family to this day. Why do we not remember the sacrifice people like him made?

Parents

  • Today is Veterans’ Day here in America. Do you have something similar to that in the UK?

  • in reply to profdanger

    We have Remembrance Day. It is in remembrance of the day that that WWI ended and the guns on the Western Front fell silent. On the day and in the weeks before poppies (made of paper or as small enamel badges) are worn. Poppies grow on disturbed soil, so were seen in profusion along the shell cratered soil between the trench lines. In 1918 my grandfather was gassed in France on the front line, he survived but his lungs were badly affected. One of his comrades won a VC in the same action.

    The day and the poppy were transposed to commemorate all later wars where UK servicemen, and civilians serving their country, died.

  • in reply to Martin

    Thank you, Martin!

    I’m sorry to hear about what happened to your grandfather, though. I can’t imagine what it was like to survive such a horrible war.

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