What is it about this country that people always want to change tradition. PC Christmas, PC this, PC that, and now we have the wrong colour Poppy!
Jonathan Bartley, director of Ekklesia, needs to understand that while there is a place for a White Poppy, Remembrance Sunday is a place for Red Poppies. I have already bought a number to support the British Legion and will be wearing one on Sunday.
In the words of Moina Michael, November 1918
We Shall Keep the Faith
Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet – to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We’ll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.
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