When To Take Poppy Off?

[tboy]

I wish I could not work at all...

You really don't have to. Just look at all the injits walkin' the streets, dumpster diving, sleeping on heating grates, etc.

Then you get the professional panhandlers. Remember the shaky lady? The one who had a posh condo and big screen tv?

With all the social programs it's a wonder anyone works lol......I guess one has to know how to work the system to live free.....(but then again, anyone with any sort of skill, intelligence, education, etc would get turned down flat).

 

[Meesh]

We are free no matter what, freedom is a figure of speach, and is interpreted differently by everyone. We are not free if you go by definition, we are governed by more and more laws restricting us in every move we make. George Orwells 1984 tells us all about our "freedom" . We are being watched by evrybody everywhere. Every Debit transaction, phone call , pasword we enter , even on here we are not free! As I am being ridiculed and called names on here is just another freedom limiting act. As I will surely get banned from here is in fact lack of freedom! So take your poppys, crosses, budda's cellphones , and anyother symbolic items you have and dump them in the septic....cuz when you are dead then you are totally free, but not before that in any way, so dont preach freedom unless you know what your talking about!

The fact that you can bad-mouth the government IS freedom.

Jack, you ain't got a clue.

You

are

ignorant.

 

[Handyman66]

hello, bellevue? We have a pickup......

lmfao :d

 

[johnnyjohn17]

as a legion member ,the unwritten rule is to wear them from the 1st of November till the 12th.

 

[Thunderballs]

I always try to get it at least a week before the 11th and usually wear it until the 12th or 13th. For those who can't be bothered wearing one or who think it is dumb, to me that is not very respectful of the sacrifices made. I have no time for such people whatsoever.

 

[rama putri]

Is this some kind of social faux pas?

No. Some people are just into ritual and dogma. Tell them to F off.

 

[Hangman]

Wear it as long as you like. Many people stop after the 11th but that's their choice. If you choose to wear yours longer, nobody whose opinion matters is going to mind. Only nosy busybodies would get upset about that.

 

[Insidious Von]

I keep a poppy permanently pinned to one of my jackets, to honour my fathers memory.

I see no need to play a lottery since my very existance means that my father has already won. He didn't have a choice about fighting for fascism; war broke out just as he was about to recieved an honourable discharge for compulsory service. His discharge was revoked and immediately got shipped to Lybia, he would not see his family for seven years. During his time in the Sahara he endured British raids, lice, dysentry, starvation and scurvy. For the remainder of his life, he required a full set of dentures just to eat. It didn't faze him; it was a trivial price to pay for life.

 

[Brill]

We wear poppies and say "never again", but as a whole we don't truly mean it.
Young Canadian are still dying in Afghanistan in a senseless war.

 

[blackrock13]

It's a common thought in many military circles that future wars won't be on the scale of WWI and WWII. They will be 'small' war or skirmisher. So may be never again is working. If war get to that scale against humanity will cease to be of any consequence and the bugs will take over.

I'm not trying to diminish the losses in Afghanistan in any way and anyone who thinks that doesn't know me at all. It's a far cry from 100,000 dead in the two world wars and todays sacrifices. Today, conflicts act as pressure valve on the worlds conflict so that similar large scale conflicts will not happen. We would not survive another. I really do not like body counts and the numbers games that some people play. To me, the first solder is no less important than the last.

 

[buttercup]

It's a far cry from 100,000 dead in the two world wars and todays sacrifices. Today, conflicts act as pressure valve on the worlds conflict so that similar large scale conflicts will not happen. We would not survive another. I really do not like body counts and the numbers games that some people play.

As a matter of fact, 100,000 dead was about the per-week number for the six years of WW2. And yes, every one a personal tragedy to the families concerned, friend and enemy. The grief of a mother who lost her son was not reduced just because there were millions of other mothers in the same boat.

 

[blackrock13]

As a matter of fact, 100,000 dead was about the per-week number for the six years of WW2. And yes, every one a personal tragedy to the families concerned, friend and enemy. The grief of a mother who lost her son was not reduced just because there were millions of other mothers in the same boat.

My statement was incomplete. 100,000 was the approximate number of 'Canadian' losses; roughly 60+40,000.

 

[Insidious Von]

The USSR lost 8 million lives in WW II, France lost 1/3 of it's male population in WW I.

 

[t00lman6969]

The fact that you can bad-mouth the government IS freedom.

Jack, you ain't got a clue.

You

are

ignorant.

The names not Jack BTW

Bad mouthg them yes, talk to them with reasoning...NO