tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5971346703488173493.post8138093355912805189..comments2023-08-19T12:58:15.583+01:00Comments on Wise Herb's Random Jottings: Remembrance SundayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5971346703488173493.post-77377083172383946912009-11-09T18:00:59.389+00:002009-11-09T18:00:59.389+00:00Nice post Sage. McRae's poem is one of the cla...Nice post Sage. McRae's poem is one of the classic WW1 messages. He was Canadian too!<br /><br />Relax Max: http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/remembranceHogdayafternoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188146617570775741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5971346703488173493.post-16300517943046082472009-11-09T04:48:52.614+00:002009-11-09T04:48:52.614+00:00That poem is from WWI. I can remember the old vets...That poem is from WWI. I can remember the old vets selling paper poppies when I was a child. They made them and sold them. The poppy was a symbol of the morphine they got when they had amputations. I guess they are all gone now. You used to donate money to them and you would wear the poppy on a wire in a button hole to show you had donated. But that was just WWI vets that did that. Was that a custom in the UK too? Or just an American thing? We still celebrate Nov. 11, but it is now for all veterans, of all wars, and the living as well as the ones who were killed. A memory.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5971346703488173493.post-66561796364385334332009-11-08T11:16:43.104+00:002009-11-08T11:16:43.104+00:00I shall be in the car at that precise moment, but ...I shall be in the car at that precise moment, but I plan to have the service on the radio and pull over at 11am. I have the greatest respect for those who gave their lives and I have been trying to explain to my son this week, how different it could have been. I became particularly interested in WW2 when I started caring for a group of ladies, who had been young wives and munitions workers. I never tire of hearing their stories.Kathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04003521059890699861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5971346703488173493.post-78390929713909317132009-11-08T10:10:04.514+00:002009-11-08T10:10:04.514+00:00That was lovely, thankyou. xThat was lovely, thankyou. xMillennium Housewifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11828746856608057335noreply@blogger.com