09 Nov 2025 19:41:30
The reason I don't wear a poppy
Is because of my Irish roots and the
Fact it commemorates all conflicts
The reason I don't boo during the minutes
Silence is because it commemorates all
Conflicts including two wars were quite
A few of my family members lost their lives.
Surely if people can respect your decision
To not wear a poppy you can respect their decision to
Stay silent for 60 seconds if you don't
Want to participate stay outside until it's
Over.
09 Nov 2025 20:44:34
As a kid in Primary school I went round houses after school selling Poppies in November. I did so proudly and I always wear my poppy and observed the Silence where where ever I am on the Eleventh hour of the Eleventh day of the Eleventh month. I pay my respects at wreath laying at my town's Memorial.
I have family relatives names engraved there from two world wars. My kin were not murderers, rapists, or plunderers. The were killed in action fighting enemies who would have taken our freedom and killed multitudes of our people.
Many Celtic supporters feel the same as me.
{Ed007's Note - Nobody has a problem with the 2 World Wars, young men sent to fight a fight they didn't understand, forced to leave their families and risk their life for men who saw them as nothing but cannon fodder, every single one of them were heroes.
It's what came after that people disagree with but the grift needs to go on, there's hardly anybody left for those wars so they needed to extend it to keep the £s rolling in, guys that got their legs blown off in Iraq signed up for it, they were doing their job and getting paid - why do they need charity money with their army pensions and benefits they receive? Where does the money go?
The other day was the 34th anniversary of my mum's younger brother committing suicide, he signed up when he was 16 and was in his 30s when he left, the total expericnce frazzled him and he couldn't handle civvy street, he got offered no help, no counselling, nada - what the poppy has become and all the attention seeking BS would turn his stomach if he was alive today according to my mum.
You be you mate, do what you want to do but others should be allowed to do the same, that's what the OG WW1 & 2 fighters fought for.
09 Nov 2025 21:33:10
Wear a White Poopy.
10 Nov 2025 12:13:40
On the poppy debate, I agree with much of the sentiment expressed, the key for me is all the 'conflicts' being lumped in with two world wars.
Personally, given my own Dad was called up as a teenager to fight in the second world war and several of my Mum's uncles were POW's in the most brutal and inhumane conditions under the cruelty of the Japanese, I will remember them.
My Mum, God rest her, used to tell me, in a quiet moment, how she remembers these men, hard working men, returning from a far off land completely broken, in mind, body and spirit. It used to bring a tear to her eye. ?
Those who were sacrificed and paid the ultimate price in both world wars, did so, in order that we could enjoy the freedoms that we enjoy today.
I don't know about anybody else on this forum but with two Irish grandfather's, and a Catholic faith, I doubt very much I would have been born had Hitler and the fascists emerged victorious in the mid 1940's.
Anywhoo, that's my tuppence worth.
☘️ ? ☘️.