On Oct 1, 2007, at 22:57, Betty Rice (in Roanoke, VA) wrote:
Poppies for the lapel are given away on the street by veteran's organizations - of course donations are welcomed and for those who don't ante up a buck or two, shame on them!
What a big diffrence an hour's drive (50+ miles) can make! In Lexington, VA, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (or, to be precise, their wives) don't give you a choice. They dangle the poppy in front of your nose as you enter/leave the grocery store but, if you don't pony up, you don't get your poppy; no give-aways with "donations welcome"...
I have a bunch of them, tied to the rear-view mirror of my car. Used to buy them all the time, not because of the Fields of Flanders (WWI), but because of "the red poppies of Monte Casino; red, because they grew out of Polish blood" (WWII). But I stopped buying them in '03. I don't want any more veterans of foreign wars; particularly not of *misbegotten* foreign wars.
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