Surry_Albion, put people like bushy on your ignore list. Starve them of the attention they crave. They are clearly not worth wasting your time and effort on.
I like seeing the poppies at the Royal Albert Hall commemoration event and have been impressed by the poppies at the Tower of London. I was part of the remembrance service at my church yesterday and the children made poppies out of tissue paper in Sunday school which looked beautiful at the...
...or the Star of David or Pink Triangles the Nazis made Jews and homosexuals wear before exterminating them.
This is the regime our brave men and women fought and destroyed so we could retain our freedom of speech and democracy.
Exactly. Our church was packed out with kids, parents and older folk. About half were wearing poppies but they were still there supporting the act of remembrance. It's the remembrance that is important not the material symbols, in my opinion. :)
So what if they don't have poppies?
Looking around on the streets on Brighton, I didn't see that many people wearing them. There were some older folk and military forces wearing them but the vast majority were not. It doesn't mean they were not remembering the fallen but there were people...