[ SECRET POST #2141 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2141 ⌋

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Re: TB1

[(Anonymous)]

Funny, that. I've been wearing the white poppy for five or six years now, since I was old enough to really grasp what both poppies mean, most of the people I know who are older than me have been wearing them for decades, and I've yet to meet ANYONE who wears white and doesn't wear both all or almost all of the time.
But I'm sorry.
I'm sorry you find peace offensive.
I'm sorry you don't believe fallen civilians, COs and non-army frontline medics don't deserve to have THEIR losses in war remembered. But for me, this is called REMEMBRANCE Day, not bloody Veteran's Day, and I feel fully justified in memorialising, alongside the millions of soldiers killed since the outbreak of WWI, the millions of people who have lost their lives in wars they had no part in over the last century, and the millions more who have been killed in active duty or in the pursuit of a cause but weren't wearing an army uniform. I'm sorry you don't respect the sacrifices made by frontline doctors and nurses, by aid organisations in war zones, by COs and by civilians who have supported armies and who have worked within danger zones, by firemen and air wardens and the Home Guard during WWII, by millions upon millions of people here and abroad. I'm sorry you think the lives of civilians who have been brutalised and killed by wars that they couldn't or wouldn't fight in are irrelevant. I'm sorry you think that by REMEMBERING THE FALLEN WHO NEVER WORE THE UNIFORM OF THE ARMED FORCES, I'm somehow saying I don't care about the fallen who did. I'm sorry that in your goddamn blind worldview, you only count as a casualty of war if you took the shilling and wore the uniform. And I'm sorry that apparently daring to remember that not everyone who dies in war is a soldier (or a member of the RAF or Navy) is tantamount to saying that soldier's sacrifices are meaningless.
Because I don't fucking believe that. On 11/11, I mourn the deaths of every man, woman and child that war turns into a statistic. Whether or not they had the right hat on for you. Remembrance Day/Armistice Day was originally memorialised to ensure that nothing on the scale of WWI happened again. Wearing the white poppy alongside the red stands for that view. I give money to veterans, because I have seen what war does to soldiers, how it damages them, and I believe that this country owes them for forcing them into that situation. And I give money to peace charities, because I don't believe it classes as respecting their sacrifice to make every following generation go through the SAME DAMN THING. And I wear the white poppy with pride, because I know COs and I know soldiers and I know medics and I know civilians who've been in warzones, and ALL of them, every one, deserves life and deserves respect and remembrance.

Re: TB1

[liveoddly]

...Thank you.

Re: TB1

[elephantinegrace]

All of this.

Re: TB1

[(Anonymous)]

::applauds:: I'm in the UK. So far as I'm concerned, Remembrance Day is for *all* the fallen - whether they were soldiers or not.