Thread: O/T Asked my friends why they aren't wearing a poppy.

My intention and comments never comes across as I intended, that's why I deleted the OP. I was just saying something I remembered at school that has never left me. As we were being told this lives were being lost and broadcast most nights on the tv, I remember atrocities in Northern Ireland being on the tv regularly. I know wars are raging as we speak - I think they always will whilst ever we humans inhabit this planet. If I can give 1...

neither are your ways my ways

Exactly. And I don't think such a view is at all "subtle", as Matthew Scott claims. If anything, it's painting things with an extremely broad brush; because war is bad, those affected by or involved in it are not worthy of being honored or remembered or cared for. "I can tell you that I am very much uninterested in whether I am shot or not."

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Paging Dr. Freud.... Sir, the override. It's been overridden.

Eleven years after the fall of Troy, We, the old men – some of us nearly forty – Met and talked on the sunny rampart Over our wine, while the lizards scuttled In dusty grass, and the crickets chirred. Some bared their wounds; Some spoke of the thirst, dry in the throat, And the heart-beat, in the din of battle; Some spoke of intolerable sufferings, The brightness gone from their eyes And the grey already thick in their hair....

It's not been 64 years since the atrocities stopped though with the greatest of respect Jana, they're happening now, they happened yesterday and they'll happened tomorrow. The advertising campaign run for poppies this time didn't say anything about WWII. I'm not complacent about the losses, my grandfather was an instructor who trained a tank regiment, one day they went out to battle in the desert, and not a single tank...

I'm astonished that any kind of psuedo-intellectual hatred of war(wow, war is bad--what a courageous stand)could prohibit people from showing respect for the ultimate sarifice so many people have made--its sad.Most adults across the world have been touched by the horrors of war and the absolute least we can do is show some respect--so Jana ,thanks for bringing up the subject for discussion.

The pacifists are wrong. Wars won't stop because people stop seeing them as honorable. They'll just be won by agressors more often. Victims of the Holocaust didn't put up much of a fight for the most part. It didn't stop nazis from killing them. The notion that it's wrong to fight against agression is evil. Is that quote James Garner? "Lots of FAMOUS people can't read!"

How thoroughly unpredictable. “I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.”