On Nov 11, 2004, at 9:26, David Collyer wrote:
Why are they selling poppies Mummy? Selling poppies in town today?
Thanks, David; I needed a good cry, since I've only been able to barf after Nov 2...
I "buy" a poppy every time I see the Veterans selling it (though, IMO, they sell them far too often; it's becoming meaningless. I suppose, they need the money from private donations more now, with the administration cutting the benefits with one hand, while making more maimed veterans with the other), and have a beginning of a poppy-wreath hanging off my car's front mirror.
In Poland, we too have a song about the red poppies - growing on Monte Cassino (Italy, WWII), red from the blood of the Polish soldiers... The song was as much as forbidden when I was growing up; one heard it rarely, and only at private meetings... Because? the army which fought at Monte Cassino was the "wrong army" - not communist...
Lest we forget
Unfortunately, America *has* forgotten; we seem to have a very short collective memory, on top of a short attention span...
*How* I hate war... Invasive, unexcusable, non-defensible, war most of all... The "we need to destroy the village to save it", the "I'll teach you democracy, if I have to shoot every last one of you" kind of war...
Back to my barf basin, --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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