Did You Buy / Wear A Poppy For Veterans' Day?

[+ Avalon]

In years gone by some veterans' group has set up a table outside the grocery story I frequent selling poppies. But when I went there yesterday there was nothing. Nor did I see anyone wearing a poppy.

[MikeBiDude]

Is that what you’re smoking when you post all day?

[+ BlueSky]

In years gone by some veterans' group has set up a table outside the grocery story I frequent selling poppies. But when I went there yesterday there was nothing. Nor did I see anyone wearing a poppy.

 

I've not across this. I think it's quite uncommon in the States but maybe I'm wrong. It's fairly common in the UK, I guess. The poppies became popular with the centenary of WWI.

[+ bigjoey]

 

Really a WWI reference that may no longer have relevance to many people today.

 

Growing up in the '50's they were a popular fund raising sale for veterans organizations.

[+ BlueSky]

I like the symbolism. I watch some BBC programs and that's where I noticed people wearing poppies on their lapels and such.

[+ bashful]

I remember the poppies being sold. Usually they would walk between cars lined up waiting for traffic lights to change. I attached them to the review mirror so those selling at the next intersection knew I already donated.

[BabyBoomer]

Back in the day, they were also sold on Memorial Day. ( May 30 )

 

~Boomer~

I've not across this. I think it's quite uncommon in the States but maybe I'm wrong. It's fairly common in the UK, I guess. The poppies became popular with the centenary of WWI.

[+ BlueSky]

Yes, the symbols seems to resonate more with Memorial Day than Veterans Day although appropriate to each.

[+ BlueSky]

When you mention BBC in this forum, television in not the first thing that comes to mind!

 

I'd love to see the other kind of BBC honoring our veterans by wearing poppies. That would be perfect for a studio like Active Duty and all their ex-military models.

[rvwnsd]

When I lived in Chicago, The American Legion was outside every grocery store, L station, and intersection selling poppies. When you walked downtown it was a sea of silk poppies. However, I don't recall them being sold on Veteran's Day because I always bought one on the way to work and banks are closed on that day. Googling "poppy day," it seems that National Poppy Day is May 28 next year, per the American Legion Website.

 

There is also a poppy shop.

[cany10011]

Visiting family in Toronto today, and was pleased to see so many people wearing poppies.

[+ BlueSky]

Visiting family in Toronto today, and was pleased to see so many people wearing poppies.

I was surprised that Canada was observing a holiday (Remembrance Day) the same day as US Veterans Day. But both must trace their roots back to the armistice that ended WWI.

[mike carey]

I've not across this. I think it's quite uncommon in the States but maybe I'm wrong. It's fairly common in the UK, I guess. The poppies became popular with the centenary of WWI.

It's been common in the UK and the old commonwealth for Remembrance Day for as long as I can remember. PM Turnbull was wearing one at the APEC summit in Da Nang. I remember being at a five-eyes conference in early November and one American asked why the members of the other four delegations were wearing poppies. (Remembrance Day is observed in Australia (on 11 Nov) but it is not a holiday. There are big services at cenotaphs in the big cities, and at the National War Memorial in Canberra.)

 

Poppies are not worn for our other day of war commemoration, Anzac Day. Sprigs of rosemary are used. It's possible to buy rosemary purportedly from Gallipoli at garden centres here.

[BabyBoomer]

it seems that Poppy Day is May 28 next year.

 

That's because Memorial Day will be on May 28, 2018. That Monday holiday thing.

 

~Boomer~

[+ Avalon]

I'm a fan of the Brit soap opera "Coronation Street" and the characters on the show have been wearing poppies since early November before Guy Fawkes Day (5 November).

 

I don't remember seeing them on "Hollyoaks" another Brit soap.

[rvwnsd]

That's because Memorial Day will be on May 28, 2018. That Monday holiday thing.

 

~Boomer~

Now if you had followed the link and looked at the website, you would have seen that I made a typo. The correct date is May 25, which is the Friday prior to Memorial Day.

 

Some people are smartasses and others are just...

[BabyBoomer]

you would have seen that I made a typo..

 

That's so unlike you.

 

~Boomer~

[Rudynate]

When I lived in Chicago, The American Legion was outside every grocery store, L station, and intersection selling poppies. When you walked downtown it was a sea of silk poppies. However, I don't recall them being sold on Veteran's Day because I always bought one on the way to work and banks are closed on that day. Googling "poppy day," it seems that National Poppy Day is May 28 next year, per the American Legion Website.

 

There is also a poppy shop.

 

 

I remember them well. In western NY, nobody didn't buy a buddy poppy. They used to make them from red crepe paper, then they started making them from embossed cardboard. Now, they're plastic. You don't see them much in California.

[rvwnsd]

I remember them well. In western NY, nobody didn't buy a buddy poppy. They used to make them from red crepe paper, then they started making them from embossed cardboard. Now, they're plastic. You don't see them much in California.

I recall them being made from fabric and, like in Western NY, nobody didn't buy them. Here in AZ you don't see them, either.

[+ Charlie]

"In Flanders fields the poppies grow,

Between the crosses, row on row."

When I was a child, that was one of the poems that schoolkids usually memorized.

 

In Britain, the poppy always seemed an appropriate symbol both as a memorial for those killed in World War I and for the armistice that ended that war.