[MR] Poppies & Veteran's Day

[Robyn Becker]

Ah, you're dredging up memories long forgotten!  My father was an Air force vet, and I remember, as a small child, always going to the VFW and getting these little red flowers (fake, unfortunately), with a wired stem, that we'd stick through a button hole of our shirt.  I never knew what they were about, of course, being way too young to understand, at least at first.
 
By the time I was old enough to understand, he'd either stopped doing it, or stopped bringing me along, I don't know which, since I don't have teenage memories of those flowers.
 
After all this time, it's nice to finally know what they were for. 
 
ReyneA true friend is someone who knows all your faults and habits, and loves you anyway.Per chevron purpure and vert, two sheaves of arrows and a griffin argent



> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:42:41 -0500> From: henderson.sharon at gmail.com> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org> Subject: [MR] Poppies & Veteran's Day> > No one in my immediate area distributes poppies any more, which> saddens me... my father and both grandfathers were veterans, and I am> chaplain to an ROTC group that has been active since before there> officially WAS such a thing as ROTC. Some of my cadets, now officers,> are on active duty today at the post of danger. The fresh-faced> youngsters I saw Friday at our observances will be there soon. I wish> I could find a poppy today; if anyone happens to obtain an extra,> please contact me off-list?> > Instead, I offer LTC McCrae's famous poem, for all our veterans living and dead.> > In Flanders Fields> LTC John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)> Canadian Army> > In Flanders field the poppies blow> Between the crosses row on row,> That mark our place; and in the sky> The larks, still bravely singing, fly> Scarce heard amid the guns below.> > We are the Dead. Short days ago> We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,> Loved and were loved, and now we lie> In Flanders fields.> > Take up our quarrel with the foe:> To you from failing hands we throw> The torch; be yours to hold it high.> If ye break faith with us who die> We shall not sleep, though poppies grow> In Flanders fields.> > God bless you all!> > Meli> > Wolf scripsit:> > On Nov 11, 2007 1:36 PM, Wolf Silveroak <wolfsilveroak at cox.net> wrote:> > The DAV was at my local Krogar down the street Friday, handing out their> > poppies. I drove past them as I left, went straight home, the opposite> > direction than I was intending to go, grabbed my spare money, came back and> > got myself a poppie.> >> > I make a point of getting at least one yearly, they are one of the few> > organizations I willingly support. Because someday, I or someone I know, may> > need their services.> >> > -Wolf> ========================================================================> The Merry Rose Tavern at Cheapside> List Info: http://merryrose.atlantia.sca.org/> Submissions: Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org> Subscriptions: http://seahorse.atlantia.sca.org/mailman/listinfo/atlantia
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