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Has anyone been?
We ordered two poppies at the start of it and have talked about going up but time has kind of ran away from us. Had finally planned to go this week then thought we would have to go to visit family on a mercy mission which thankfully didn't happen, but in the meantime all picked up a lurgee that we are just recovering from. It's now shitty weather in London and we are trying to debate whether we should go and have a look whilst it's still half term and before it goes.
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we'd like to, but saw some footage of the crowds and both had a mahoussive panic attack. Don't think I can do crowds anymore.
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http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/oct/28/tower-of-london-poppies-ukip-remembrance-day
Looks good to me ...
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Wait, I'd consider myself on the left. Sorry, take it all back, must be misremembering, clearly I hated it.
hmmm, just to be a contrarion here, he's not saying their sacrifice shouldn't be remembered, he's saying he doesn't like that installation and that he felt it doesn't do justice to them and what they endured. Personally, I don't agree with him, the poppy was in many ways a perfect way to remember this as it wasn't about the glorious victors or glamourising war, it was (to me anyways) a statement of the futility of war, all that blood and death and yet a year after the war, poppy's grew in that field where men died. It was as if to say that the planet doesn't care for your petty little struggles, it will just keep doing its thing.
He's entitled to not like something, I don't think that makes him a bellend or a twat. Nor is it the left hating it.
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The Labour-aligned “National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers” was set up in 1917, campaigning for better war pensions and jobs, excluding officers from membership. The left-Liberal organized “National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers” campaigned under the slogan “justice not charity”. In opposition to these organisations a charity for ex-servicemen was launched in 1921, and the sale of poppies was used to mark the build-up to Remembrance Day. It is named after Sir Douglas Haig, the British senior officer responsible for the massacre at the battles of the Somme and the Passchendaele. The British Legion continued to veer further to the political right, with figures like Lord Derby taking a lead on its work.
My grandfather fought at the Somme on day one and in many other battles and survived although he was mentally scarred. He didn't wear a poppy until the 1970s and many of the men who fought in WW1 didn't either - it did nothing for them. They needed financial help but got the great depression and faced years of unemployment and grinding poverty until it all kicked off again.
I'm just glad I didn't have to fight and I will wear a poppy to remember the sacrifice my grandfather's generation.
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