That may or may not be true, but why does that mean someone is wrong for not watching a service, or wearing both a white and red poppy? White poppies remember all the fallen, not just the British armed forces. They remember, for example, all the civilians who died in the bombing raids at home and abroad.
Exsctly.
The white poppy remembers the Americans, Russians Indians,Africans - and, yes, Japanese, Germans and the rest - as well as 'our boys'.
It remembers all those who died...the miners in the pits who were crushed - and their deaths unreported; factory workers, policemwn, whatever - every bit as vital to the 'war effort' but never given the same kudos.
On the unday before Rememberance Sunday each year, we have a pignant service in and outside church; two lit miners' lamps (Glennies) arelaid on the Communion table, and a poem recalling the hell of the underground miner is read. After the service, a wreath is laid at the 'miners cross'; two pit props welded to form a cross, on a green, tree rimmed hill next to the Kirk...the hill was the remains of a coal tip, now landscaped.
The miners who died underground were every bit as dead as the soldiers who were butchered for vainglory in France.
