This Blog holds no brief for those who embrace the white poppy as an alternative for Remembrance Day. It is an attempt to politicise a non-political issue. No alternative is required. Can we not, just for once, show some unity as a nation?Of course, the liberal left and liberal Christians frequently unite 'to spit in the face' of the rest of us, so the answer is probably a resounding 'no'.
They always claim to be interested in 'people' - which the evidence clearly demonstrates to be false. Enormous amounts of honest folk who had to leave homes to fight a common foe and their concerned families are deeply insulted and hurt.
Two years ago today, November the 11th, I attended my Dad's funeral; an old soldier and I think on how deeply he would have been offended. He left too many friends and colleagues on the battlefields of France, Holland, the Ardennes and Germany.
The lefties must remember two things. It is essential that people are put before their utopian ideals and secondly, the decent should never be targets.
Were the Flanders Fields covered in white poppies or red? - Not white, eh? - Then have they not missed the point altogether?
IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow,
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead.
Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
LINK: http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/siteinfo/newsround/11nov.html Bogle: Green Fields of France.
