Have you got your poppy yet? Are you wearing it?






I've already got stabbed by my poppy thus far.

I'm unfamalair with this custom. How does it work?

not yet, i am after a wristband this year.

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I love that you all do the Poppys, thanks for sharing that with us.

I have had my poppy since yesterday.
Left side.Over the heart and it comes off on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.Never again.Until next year.
That is the message-Never Again.
An old war vet told me of the whole thing,his old war stories too.REALLY interesting.

I know one American who honored this tradition. I never did research for more details, but I knew it honored vets, he 'fallen'. My dad always wore a poppy, he also would be selling them around this time of the year. He wasn't part of a legion or anything either. Hmmmm, now I wonder not why he did this, but 'how' it evolved, what or who pulled him in to the poppy idea. Whereas, he never bothered to visit the graves of relatives on Veteran's Day, my mom always did that alone, or with her sister.
Anyway, some Americans do honor the fallen with poppies. I don't go out looking for them at this time, but when I run aross someone selling them I buy one. I have even started planting poppies, I thought it was in memory of my dad. Now it will have more significance.
Certainly, the act of wearing a poppy shouldn't be any less significant because we're Americans, huh? All of the fallen (from present to years' past) should be recognized and honored by all!

Thousands of GI's died in France where the poppy fields are now. America has as much right to use the poppy as any other country involved.