I see FaceBook Memes which say "Keep the Poppy Going" .

First I must say that the wearing of lapel poppies in the U.K. and in some Commonwealth countries has nothing to do with the American VETERANS DAY (though the dates coincide).  Veterans Day has to do with all those men and woman who have served in the Armed Forces etc.  We remember our war dead on Memorial Day.


The history of Remembrance Sunday in the U.K. is tortuous! (see below). 

Sadly the wearing, or not wearing of a Poppy has been hi-jacked by some in the U.K. as a matter of patriotism.  Newscasters etc. who do not wear the poppy are deemed to  be unpatriotic.  That's awful, especially because the Poppy was in its earliest day a sad remembrance of  the  blood bath which was World War One, not a celebration of militarism.

I am all in favour of the wearing of the poppy provided that it is uncoerced.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Sunday

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