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(70,703 posts) Wed Dec 18, 2019, 01:03 AM Dec 2019

Madame Speaker wore my Armistice Day poppy pin today!1 [View all]

I've criticized the service clubs for being too wingnut, but my membership is permanent and I work from within. So a few months ago I did the internet shopping thing in search of permanent poppy pins instead of the paper VFW ones, and ended up with these with the motto that might be British. I gave one to friends/family. I wear mine to the local post, not just on Veterans Day.

So tonight on Brian WILLIAMS there was a clip of the Speaker being asked about Dear Leader's whacked letter (possibly written by Stephen MILLER from jottings of Dear Leader), and there was our poppy pin being worn by Madame Speaker!!!1 I am over the moon!1

Brits wear them all the time. Sometimes the whole guest panel with Graham NORTON all have them on.

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Madame Speaker wore my Armistice Day poppy pin *today*!1 [View all] UTUSN Dec 2019 OP

I bought a bunch of these before a group of us went to France & Belgium in 2018 Historic NY Dec 2019 #1

Wow, the exact same ones? I dremeled off the pins on the back and glued flat round magnets UTUSN Dec 2019 #3

Its the official poppy adapted for the WWI commemorative coins. Historic NY Dec 2019 #5

Nancy looks ready to kick some ass in that pic. lpbk2713 Dec 2019 #2

Thing about Nancy is, she can strike down drumf cilla4progress Dec 2019 #18

The Poppy is much bigger in UK and Commonwealth countries than in the US greenjar_01 Dec 2019 #4

Well, not really odd, as I say, can be any time. VFW tends to limit to Vets Day. UTUSN Dec 2019 #6

Definitely the UK type greenjar_01 Dec 2019 #8

What do you mean by your Armistice Day pin? lunatica Dec 2019 #7

What is now in the U.S. "Veterans Day" started as Armistice Day, end of WW I. UTUSN Dec 2019 #9

Thanks! lunatica Dec 2019 #10

As I've disputed a little bit, it can honor any time. I'm trying to find a pic with the crosses UTUSN Dec 2019 #11

OK. I think I get it lunatica Dec 2019 #12

No, it's specifically for the reason of honoring - honoring *any time*. It *is* specifically UTUSN Dec 2019 #14

I didn't mean it wouldn't be for honoring soldiers. lunatica Dec 2019 #20

My mother talked about how she memorized Raine Dec 2019 #13

WW I was horrendously brutal in the millions of deaths. All war is horrible, but it set the impact. UTUSN Dec 2019 #16

I haven't seen that Raine Dec 2019 #27

... sprinkleeninow Dec 2019 #15

Where's my Mid-Watch picture?!1 UTUSN Dec 2019 #17

When I straighten out an IRS issue, fiddle with retirement accounts, get a new phone activated, sprinkleeninow Dec 2019 #19

Well, in the time it took to write that post you could have UTUSN Dec 2019 #22

IKR. Now I need to rack. After a too-tooty-tree a.m. snack. sprinkleeninow Dec 2019 #25

When I was a youngster we still called it Armistice Day; my #1 brother was born 11-11-1948... Hekate Dec 2019 #21

Thank *you* UTUSN Dec 2019 #23

We put on a patriotic program at school for our parents and families. sprinkleeninow Dec 2019 #26

I can remember my grandfather and father wearing them. colorado_ufo Dec 2019 #24

here i shall insert a wonderful WW1 era book by floyd gibbons-and they said we wouldn't fight. pansypoo53219 Dec 2019 #28

Probably wore it for Battle of the Bulge anniversary. Lars39 Dec 2019 #29