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Forum: Questions and Answers 17-11-2015, 10:43

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? so bowing out was not a serious intention then?

Forum: Questions and Answers 16-11-2015, 21:29

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? I thought you said you were bowing out of this thread.

Forum: Questions and Answers 16-11-2015, 13:11

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? I have never ever been approached by a poppy seller. Poppies have been on sale at various outlets.....Asda had members of the British Legion in their store on the run up to Armistice Day. There...

Forum: Questions and Answers 10-11-2015, 18:47

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? That is quite wrong. If people are not happy to wear a poppy(for whatever their reasons) then that should be their choice. I would prefer folk wore their poppy because they want to demonstrate...

Forum: Questions and Answers 10-11-2015, 18:42

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? Barrie, thank you for your information. I know that there has not been conscription since either the late fifties or early sixties(although I do remember some young men doing National Service). The...

Forum: Questions and Answers 10-11-2015, 14:07

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? Propaganda.....the news service was not what it is now and many items related to the conflicts were not published as they were thought to be detrimental to the war effort or security. As for the...

Forum: Questions and Answers 10-11-2015, 10:08

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? Jason, the best thing you could do is bow out of this thread as you still do not get it. The men who fought in those conflicts you mention were not given a choice. They were conscripted men. If...

Forum: Questions and Answers 08-11-2015, 20:59

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? This year I have bought four poppies....I have worn them for a couple of days and then they have dropped off my Jacket.......not that I am complaining. I will NEVER give up wearing the poppy to...

Forum: Questions and Answers 08-11-2014, 22:00

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? The obvious answer would have to be 'NO'.

Forum: Questions and Answers 08-11-2014, 21:57

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? Once upon a day no one would dream of asking the question, and people wore the poppy.....then some belligerent PC oiiks started imbuing the poppy with politicised nonsense and folk who really could...

Forum: Questions and Answers 08-11-2014, 21:52

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? It isn't a battle of wits though is it? It is a contrived thread.....to what end?

Forum: Questions and Answers 08-11-2014, 15:48

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? Where was it that anyone has said that war is 'honourable'? I certainly have neither said or implied any such thing. You cannot be ashamed of something over which you had no control. If you...

Forum: Questions and Answers 08-11-2014, 08:04

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? Cashy that is because we are the generation who lived in the aftermath of one of the great conflicts and usually knew someone in our family who had also been involved in the one before as well. Our...

Forum: Questions and Answers 08-11-2014, 07:51

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? Education? What kind of education are you suggesting? Doesn't a Remembrance Day focus the mind on what went before? Do you really believe that Hitler and his ilk could have been stopped by...

Forum: Questions and Answers 08-11-2014, 07:07

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? 'lest we forget'

Forum: Questions and Answers 08-11-2014, 07:06

Replies: 60 Do you wear one and if so why? Views: 61 Posted By Margaret Pilkington Re: Do you wear one and if so why? Yes....I do wear a poppy.......an enamel one. I bought it a few years ago but I still contribute each November without taking a new poppy. I consider my contribution to be the subscription for...

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