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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: simondjuk on November 06, 2013, 09:34:49 PM
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Just a question...
Do you have or will you be buying a poppy this year?
I got mine yesterday, its one of the tie pin ones, mainly as the job I do, the paper ones get damaged easily.
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I have a pin that i bought last year so will wear that on my laynard thingy
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I'm not allowed to wear a normal poppy or the tie pin ones in case it falls off into the food counters so I've got a sticker attached to one of our name badge backs.
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Yes we bought poppies also bought one of the wooden crosses like last year and will take it up to dads grave with his name on later today seeing as the suns out
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I bought three yesterday - and two fell apart straight away! :o
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Yes always buy one.
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Both my grandfathers served in WW1. My parents both served in WW2, as did all my uncles and aunts and I have a nephew in the RAF.
I always buy a poppy.
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Mines on display on the dashboard. Had it about 3-4 years. Lives in the glove box 8)
Always drop a quid in a tin, usually in Bolsover Market Place, army cadets collecting ;)
(http://i1057.photobucket.com/albums/t382/Barry_Fly/100_6326_zps4de86eba.jpg) (http://s1057.photobucket.com/user/Barry_Fly/media/100_6326_zps4de86eba.jpg.html)
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Here's an interesting read.
This year, I will wear a poppy for the last time
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/08/poppy-last-time-remembrance-harry-leslie-smith (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/08/poppy-last-time-remembrance-harry-leslie-smith)
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That's an excellent write up of an old soldier as so right.
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He seems to have overlooked that today's young men and women in the armed forces volunteered to join up and put themselves in harm's way. Their sacrifice deserves to be respected and remembered just as much as those in past conflicts who had no choice.
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Respect for all of them. It's not something I have ever put myself forward for.
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I tend to buy stuff from the http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/ (http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/) & http://www.rttw.org/ (http://www.rttw.org/) forces charities as well as getting poppis
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Got Ours Last Week, Poppy & Wrist band
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No cadets in Bolsover this morning, but they were outside Tesco's in Clowne ;)
Popped a quid in the collection box but didn't take a poppy, not taking one for the sake of it :)
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My daughter volunteered to sell them in town but never heard anything - just trying to 'do her bit'
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OC if she wants to volunteer next year at Sainsbury's or a place that shall remain nameless I can put you in touch with the local organiser who needs all the volunteers he can get
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Cheers for that JR I will tell her, sure she will.