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Remembrance Sunday

Let Us Forget...

Grainne Gillis | Posted 11.01.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: UK Society, Poppy Day, Military, Army, UK Politics, Afghanistan, Armed Forces, War, Navy, Iraq, Remembrance Sunday, Remembrance Day, UK Politics News
Grainne Gillis

There are not many things I dislike about living in London. Of course, the weather could be better sometimes; transport could definitely be improved upon; and an increase in the living wage would help most ordinary Londoners. But the one day of the year I have come to absolutely loathe and despise in over a decade of living in this great city is Remembrance Sunday.

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Festival Of Remembrance Concert Lineup Revealed

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.11.2012 | UK
Read More: Festival of Remembrance, Alexandra Burke, Remembrance Sunday, Military Wives Choir, UK News, UK World, Rod Stewart, Remembrance Day, UK News

Rod Stewart and Alexandra Burke will perform for the Queen at the Festival of Remembrance on Satuday night in honour of Britain's war dead. The tel...

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Remembrance Day Is an Annual Ritual of Nauseating Hypocrisy

John Wight | Posted 08.01.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Remembrance Day, War, UK, Remembrance Sunday, Armed Forces, Armistice Day, Poppy Appeal, UK Politics News
John Wight

The sight of politicians, the royal family and various other members of the nation's ruling class laying wreaths at the cenotaph to commemorate the deaths and slaughter of the untold thousands of working class men, used as cannon fodder to maintain the class privileges which they and theirs enjoy, is truly an act of sickening hypocrisy to behold.

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Wearing a Poppy

James Field | Posted 07.01.2013 | UK Style
Read More: Remembrance Sunday, 11th November 2012, Poppy Appeal, Poppy, Remembrance, Remembrance Day, Mydaily, UK Style, Men's Fashion, UK Lifestyle, UK Style News
James Field

The use of the poppy was inspired by the World War I poem 'In Flanders Fields'. It refers to the many poppies that were the first flowers to grow in the churned-up earth of soldiers' graves in Flanders, a region of Europe that overlies parts of Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.

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Royal British Legion Appeal For Silence Across Social Networks

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 05.11.2012 | UK
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The Royal British Legion is launching a major campaign to extend Remembrance Sunday's two minute silence to social networks. Thousands of Facebook ...

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The Other Poppies of War

Michael Freemantle | Posted 04.01.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Chemistry, Royal British Legion, Analgesics, Poppy Appeal, Opium Wars, Science, Drugs, First World War, Great War, Poppy, UK Tech, Remembrance Sunday, UK Lifestyle, UK Tech News
Michael Freemantle

Opium poppy extracts and their chemical derivatives were and still are invaluable in relieving the suffering of the wounded. It is therefore safe to say that both the opium poppy and the red poppy, or least the artificial variety, have been employed to bring immense relief to members of the armed forces, albeit in totally different ways.

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Young Muslims Sell Poppies In Bid For 'Peace Between All Peoples And Religions'

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 29.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, Muslims, Remembrance Sunday, UK News, Poppy Appeal, London, News, Young Muslims, UK News

A group of young Muslims have taken their campaign to sell poppies nationwide to spread their message of "peace and unity between all nations, peoples...

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PHOTOS - Queen Leads Tributes To Fallen And Wounded At The Cenotaph

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 12.01.2012 | UK
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The Queen has led tributes to UK servicemen and women killed and wounded in conflicts around the world at the Cenotaph in London. After days of gloom...

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Queen To Lead Remembrance Sunday Service At Cenotaph In London

PA | Posted 12.01.2012 | UK
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Remembrance Sunday services are to be held across the country in tribute to members of Britain's Armed Forces who have died in major conflicts. ...

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Surge In 'Utterly Shameless' Theft Of War Memorials For Scrap Metal

PA | Posted 11.01.2012 | UK
Read More: Remembrance Sunday, War Memorial, Scrap Metal, Local Government Association, UK News, Remembrance Day, UK News

The surge in "shameless" thefts of war memorials is being fuelled by lax scrap metal regulation, town hall chiefs have warned. Ou...

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X Factor Star Joe McElderry To Perform At Festival Of Remembrance

PA | Posted 11.01.2012 | UK
Read More: Festival of Remembrance, Remembrance Sunday, Royal Albert Hall, X Factor, UK News, Katherine Jenkins, The Queen, Remembrance Day, UK News

X Factor star Joe McElderry and singer Katherine Jenkins will perform for the Queen at the Festival of Remembrance in honour of Britain's war dead. ...

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Michael Rundle

PHOTOS: First World War Battlefields Still Show Their Scars, Nine Decades On

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Rundle | Posted 10.01.2012 | UK
Read More: 11 November, Battlefields, Armistice Day, World War I, Slideadbigshot, War, Remembrance Sunday, WWI Battlefields, World War One, World War, UK News

When Harry Patch, the last British veteran of the First World War, died in 2009 at the age of 111, it seemed for some as if our final physical connect...

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Was the FA's Row With FIFA Over the Poppy Ban an Own Goal?

Don Riddell | Posted 10.01.2012 | UK
Read More: UK Football, English FA, Poppies, UK Sport, Remembrance Sunday, Fifa, Three Lions, British Legion, Football Association, Sepp Blatter, Haig Fund, England, Football, Sport, UK News
Don Riddell

England's complaint is that the poppy has no political connotations; but this doesn't really stand up to scrutiny. Ask an Iraqi, an Afghan, a German, an Argentine, or a national of any of the countries Britain has fought against since the Haig Fund was established and they may beg to differ.

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Why You Risk the Wrath of the Righteous Few if You Leave Your Poppy at Home

The Guyliner | Posted 31.12.2011 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Remembrance Sunday, Charity, Poppy Appeal, Bullying, Poppy Day, UK Lifestyle, UK, Royal British Legion, UK Lifestyle News
The Guyliner

Wear your poppy with pride, yes - and I shall once more this year - but don't feel that little red paper flower gives you special dispensation to shame those who don't. That is not the brand of freedom our soldiers fought for.

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Poppy Pride or Poppy Fascism?

Mike Ion | Posted 14.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Jon Snow, Poppies, Soldiers, Remembrance, War, War Veterans, Poppy Appeal, UK Politics, British Legion, Remembrance Sunday, UK News
Mike Ion

So I will be wearing my poppy this November. Out of some misguided sense of jingoistic pride? No. Out of respect and gratitude? Yes. Why? Because the act of remembrance and the wearing of a poppy is a very small price to pay.

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