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posted by [identity profile] fjm.livejournal.com at 05:35pm on 30/10/2006
Have you met the Peace Poppy? White instead of red. First produced by the Peace Pledge Union in 1921. Available at all good Quaker book stores (ie Friends House on Euston Road).

I believe the other point about poppies is that they grow best in churned earth, and thrive rather well on blood fertiliser.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 06:18pm on 30/10/2006
I've read about the Peace Poppy but never seen one worn.
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posted by [identity profile] sollersuk.livejournal.com at 08:27pm on 30/10/2006
Nor have I. Everybody I know who wants to be seen to be responding to the day wants to support the people making the ordinary poppies and their beneficiaries.
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posted by [identity profile] fjm.livejournal.com at 09:34pm on 30/10/2006
I give money. I won't wear the red poppy. It is a disgraceful symbol of the way we treat our servicemen and the crocodile tears of politicians make me sick.

Remember the grief given to Michael Foot for wearing his donkey jacket to the cenotaph? A man who lost friends and cousins in the war, yet was barracked by a war monger for not showing enough respect.
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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 09:58pm on 30/10/2006
Multiply that by x, where x = 'more than a reasonable person can count,' and you get the US attitude. I'm sure you're familiar with the issues surrounding Max Cleland during the last election, but many people aren't aware that many servicemen's families get by only because they qualify for Food Stamps. And don't start on the VA -- if you think problems with homeless Vietnam veterans are bad, wait 10-20 years and see what post-Iraq US streets are going to be like. The government has, IIRC, redefined PTSD so that they aren't responsible for treating it; I'll be very surprised if many of the vets who come back, especially those with no physical damage (and thus won't be in the VA system), will have health insurance that will cover it, because it will be termed a 'pre-existing condition'.

If Dante was right, this administration will find itself in one of the lowest circles of Purgatory.
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posted by [identity profile] oursin.livejournal.com at 08:45pm on 30/10/2006
A colleague of mine used to wear one.
The Women's Cooperative Guild were very active in the white poppy campaign during the interwar years - I don't know what happened afterwards.
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posted by [identity profile] fjm.livejournal.com at 09:31pm on 30/10/2006
You'll see mine this year.
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