Hi BBCW

I don't know where you live or what you do there, but where we live most of the people we see in the High Street or the pubs and around our home are wearing poppies. What I have noticed though is a gradual reduction of poppies fastened to the front (mainly) of cars and other vehicles. We both wear our poppies in remembrance of all the people who died in all the conflicts and wars. Not with pride but in sorrow of the devastating losses on all sides.

My Grandfather fought in WW1 and my father in WW2 when he was badly injured and taken prisoner. He always wore a poppy and went on the Remembrance Parades.

I was in the RAF and though I went to Suez I was not involved in any
fighting. I was awarded campaign and service medals which I never wore once I came out of the RAF. I used to go on the Parades but I don't now-a-days. I will observe the silence as I watch it on TV.

In Remembrance

MikeL2