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It's common here in Australia to wear a red poppy on this day... it's symbolic of the initial growth of plants to emerge through the decimated battlefields of France.
purplemer
reply to post by ALOSTSOUL
I have equal respect for all those that have died in wars not just the side of my country. I prefer to wear the white poppy. It represents peace..
I have equal respect for all those that have died in wars not just the side of my country. I prefer to wear the white poppy. It represents peace.
mistersmith
Celebrating the bravery of our soldiers distracts us from the way they were brutally thrown at the cannons by the governments of both sides.
Few expected to die, so talk of sacrifice, and laying down their lives, would have elicited a hollow laugh from most of them, I think.
By wearing a poppy of any sort, I feel I would give tacit support to the idea that war, rather than heroism, can be glorious, or even just acceptable.
mistersmith
Rosinitiate
In Afghan fields the poppies grow.
Between the crosses.
Row on row.
~Michael Rivero
Everything in context...
Celebrating the bravery of our soldiers distracts us from the way they were brutally thrown at the cannons by the governments of both sides.