Tamara wrote:
I buy a poppy every time I see the Veterans selling it (though, IMO,
they sell them far too often; it's becoming meaningless.
Poppies are only sold shortly before and on 11th November every year to
commemorate the ending of the 1st world war at 11 am on 11th November 1918
Why are they selling poppies Mummy? Selling poppies in town today?
The poppies, child, are flowers of love for the men who marched away.
But why have they chosen a poppy Mummy? Why not a beautiful rose?
Because, my child, men fought and died
In the fields where the poppies grow.
But why are the
