The sanctimonious poppy police should perhaps spend more time in quiet remembrance

[JLM]

i don't wear one because excepting the guys who did the trenches and foxholes the rest of us remember nothing but what's been spooned into us about a mountain of dead and thier good deeds. You remember nothing, you weren't there. You repeat the bankers limp regret annually. Making it certain that you will offer up your children to the fire of war. Wake up shjthead.

i don't remember any of them.

And neither do you.

and niether do you.

 

[JLM]

I personally don't give a fukk about the poppy, but thought this was an interesting viewpoint.


The sanctimonious poppy police should perhaps spend more time in quiet remembrance


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I don't see any reason to denigrate the poppy or those who have regard for it. It originated as a symbol for the horrendous loss suffered in W.W.1 and continued on to W.W.2. and the wars since. It reminds us of the bravery and in some cases the losses suffered for what we hold so dear today. Lay off the poppy and those who hold it in high regard! It's a little presumptuous to speculate on what we do or don't remember!

 

[JLM]

I just got to thinking today (Remembrance Day) is a good day to get away from "wrestling" with all the idiots of the world and focus more on the people who made sacrifices for all we enjoy today.
(Is that more satisfactory, Walter?)

 

[Curious Cdn]

I just got to thinking today (Remembrance Day) is a good day to get away from "wrestling" with all the idiots of the world and focus more on the people who made sacrifices for all we enjoy today.
(Is that more satisfactory, Walter?)

Oh, Walter hasn't made any sacrifices.

 

[Cannuck]

Oh, Walter hasn't made any sacrifices.

He lives in a country that allows darkies. That’s a scrifice in Wally’s mind

 

[darkbeaver]

The present remembers little of the past no matter how hopeful we paint it. I don,t remember that war and your little plastic red things stirs no memory whatever in me. I remember the scrap yard just down from my house in the early sixtys full of limey helmits and lee enfield 303,s torched accross the breech. Three might get you one, gas masks and WWII uniforms, when I was little the Dartmouth shipyard had a WWII German submarine on the slip for months. They used to frequent that harbour and its approaches during WWII.

 

[darkbeaver]

OK, I'll give you that you said "one might argue that WWII was about our freedom."

Assuming "one" is ignorant and not real bright.

Freedom, hahahahah, nothing is free here ever, you work or you die.

 

[darkbeaver]

Which is why we call it Veterans Day.

Well, that and, to be honest, we don't see much good about the 1914-18 mess. We tend to see it as a family feud run by two sides that were so blindingly incompetent they beat themselves to a standstill and destroyed a continent, then when they were standing there staring at each other, too hurt and tired to throw a meaningful punch, we finally sighed and went over to wrap it up.

Of course your industry made that possible when the native gun fodder made the outcome less productive for the investors, American coin prolonged the carnage and destroyed the promise of the German Ages.

 

[JLM]

Oh, Walter hasn't made any sacrifices.

Are you positive he didn't buy a poppy?

 

[JLM]

Freedom, hahahahah, nothing is free here ever, you work or you die.

So you figure the world owes you a living?

 

[darkbeaver]

So you figure the world owes you a living?

This world owes me nothing. Like I said you work or you die. How you figured I said anything different defies my imagination, at least.

Very pleasant to correspond with you again. Thank you for the interest.