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simondjuk

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Remembrance Sunday
« on: November 06, 2013, 09:34:49 PM »
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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Re: Remembrance Sunday
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2013, 07:54:10 AM »
I have a pin that i bought last year so will wear that on my laynard thingy
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Re: Remembrance Sunday
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2013, 09:09:22 AM »
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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Re: Remembrance Sunday
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2013, 09:53:05 AM »
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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Re: Remembrance Sunday
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2013, 12:26:47 PM »
I bought three yesterday - and two fell apart straight away!  :o
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Re: Remembrance Sunday
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2013, 01:42:54 PM »
Yes always buy one.
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Re: Remembrance Sunday
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2013, 01:56:07 PM »
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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Re: Remembrance Sunday
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2013, 06:34:40 PM »
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  ;)

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Re: Remembrance Sunday
« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2013, 08:39:14 AM »
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
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Re: Remembrance Sunday
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2013, 09:27:43 AM »
That's an excellent write up of an old soldier as so right.
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Re: Remembrance Sunday
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2013, 09:44:11 AM »
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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Re: Remembrance Sunday
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2013, 09:59:44 AM »
Respect for all of them. It's not something I have ever put myself forward for.
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Re: Remembrance Sunday
« Reply #12 on: November 09, 2013, 11:07:03 AM »
I tend to buy stuff from the http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/ & http://www.rttw.org/ forces charities as well as getting poppis
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Re: Remembrance Sunday
« Reply #13 on: November 09, 2013, 05:54:39 PM »
Got Ours Last Week, Poppy & Wrist band
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Re: Remembrance Sunday
« Reply #14 on: November 09, 2013, 06:06:04 PM »
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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