Poppies...Poison Poppies
BTW, I do a fan-dam-tastic Wicked Witch of the West impersonation, just so you know...
But this post has NOTHING to do with the Wizard of Oz, except that when I think "Poppies" that's what pops up in my head. Little Sister (aka The Clam) claims that I have the weirdest stream of consciousness of anyone she has ever known. My brain does take funny little leaps, and I can't even blame it on youthful drug use.
This post has to do with poppies. The Veteran's Day variety. Since I watch a fair amount of CBC (Canadian televison) which, in turn, carries a certain amount of British television, I have noticed that, every November, every single flipping person on the CBC is sporting a red poppy in his/her lapel. At first I dismissed this as a clearly socialist thing - red being the color of godless communists and all that. (Except that, somehow, in 2000, someone in the media assigned red to represent republicans and blue to represent democrats in election speak, leading to "red states" and "blue states." I blame the liberal media, who clearly thought it was funny to make republicans have the commie color.)
But then, someone (probably The Canuck) explained to me that those were Veteran's Day poppies. (Well, they may call it something different in Canada and the UK, but we're all talking about November 11.) Oh, I thought, how touching. (Seriously. I would never be snarky about veterans.) But recently I have come to an important question. Why don't Americans wear poppies in support of our veterans? We're the ones who are supposed to be all patriotic all over the place. We drape anything that holds still in the Stars and Stripes. (Not that there's anything wrong with that - if it wasn't for the Stars and Stripes, there may well be a lot more swastikas around, for example.) So why don't we wear poppies in early November?
So, that's IT. I will obtain a poppy to wear next year, and perhaps extras to give away. I am starting a grass roots Poppies for Americans, Our Veterans Deserve Respect campaign. The UK and Canada can try to keep us in the poppyless ghetto, but we cannot be kept down forever!
And that's what I think about THAT!
The Big Seester
But this post has NOTHING to do with the Wizard of Oz, except that when I think "Poppies" that's what pops up in my head. Little Sister (aka The Clam) claims that I have the weirdest stream of consciousness of anyone she has ever known. My brain does take funny little leaps, and I can't even blame it on youthful drug use.
This post has to do with poppies. The Veteran's Day variety. Since I watch a fair amount of CBC (Canadian televison) which, in turn, carries a certain amount of British television, I have noticed that, every November, every single flipping person on the CBC is sporting a red poppy in his/her lapel. At first I dismissed this as a clearly socialist thing - red being the color of godless communists and all that. (Except that, somehow, in 2000, someone in the media assigned red to represent republicans and blue to represent democrats in election speak, leading to "red states" and "blue states." I blame the liberal media, who clearly thought it was funny to make republicans have the commie color.)
But then, someone (probably The Canuck) explained to me that those were Veteran's Day poppies. (Well, they may call it something different in Canada and the UK, but we're all talking about November 11.) Oh, I thought, how touching. (Seriously. I would never be snarky about veterans.) But recently I have come to an important question. Why don't Americans wear poppies in support of our veterans? We're the ones who are supposed to be all patriotic all over the place. We drape anything that holds still in the Stars and Stripes. (Not that there's anything wrong with that - if it wasn't for the Stars and Stripes, there may well be a lot more swastikas around, for example.) So why don't we wear poppies in early November?
So, that's IT. I will obtain a poppy to wear next year, and perhaps extras to give away. I am starting a grass roots Poppies for Americans, Our Veterans Deserve Respect campaign. The UK and Canada can try to keep us in the poppyless ghetto, but we cannot be kept down forever!
And that's what I think about THAT!
The Big Seester
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