Sunday is Remembrance Sunday. Our equivalent of Veterans Day. Have you bought your poppy yet?
I bought one last week when I was in Toronto.
Haven’t seen the poppy folk yet, but I buy one every year.
Haven’t seen anyone selling them yet. I buy one every year though and put it on my rear view mirror, replacing the one I’d bought the year before. I’ve been doing that since I bought my first car at 17 or 18.
My mom is a Veteran, my dad is a Veteran (US Air Force, late 60s, served most of their time in the Philippines.)
My husband is a Veteran. (Army)
Big thanks!
I bought my poppy several days ago, but I’m batting about .500 in remembering to wear the thing. :smack:
I haven’t seen anyone selling them: which is a shame, since I need to replace the one I got awhile back as it finally fell apart. 
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I wear a poppy every year from November 1st to the 11th. The twelfth, actually.
It rules out wearing pink blouses, as it clashes. But I’d feel terrible if I didn’t wear it. It bothers me not see more of them on peoples’ lapels.
Really, it’s not too much to ask to do this simple thing to honour and remember.
I’ve been meaning to ask someone about this since they suddenly popped up everywhere. Why wear them so long?
Why not? The Legion makes a little money off them, and I certainly don’t mind buying numerous poppies from the vets outside the supermarket and similar. I always engage them in a conversation and find out about their service. (Once I encountered a vet who had served with my uncle, who was a sailor in the RCN on the North Atlantic convoy runs in WWII. That was a great conversation.) Anyway, no matter the service, all the vets have some great stories that should be heard. So if they want to sell poppies for two weeks or so, I say, let them. Through our “outside the supermarket and similar” conversations in November, I like to think that have learned a lot more Canadian military history than the history books tell.
Just traditional, I suppose. To me, “poppy season” begins the day after Hallowe’en.*
*Also traditional: I grew up seeing it with the apostrophe.
I do this too and I have done this since I was young as well.
I have not seen the Poppys yet but they usually have a Veteran selling them at our local Giant Eagle. I have to go there today so hopefully I can get one.
I haven’t seen any here in the USofA as they normally have them around Memorial Day in May around here.
Thank all of you other Veterans for your service.
(ex-USNR, served 2 years fighting, er, loving, the French on the Riviera.)
I was just thinking it was odd to not see the Veterans out selling poppies yet. I have always bought my poppy, my dad retired USAF, as did my brother. My husband is also a veteran. In fact, he will be in the local parade today, since he is still active guard. Too bad I hafta work, or I’d go cheer for him.
Got mine last week, and stuck it on my purse. It’s got the pin bent around so it won’t slip off, and I’ve always got my purse.
Thank you for doing this. It’s important to learn history from those who lived it.
I don’t have a poppy and I feel weird about it. I haven’t been home in over a year. Last year on Remembrance Day I went to services at the Consulate in Washington, DC, and pinned my poppy to the wreath. My uncle Fred Zink (career Canadian Air Force) had died just recently and I put it on there in his honour.
My dad and his (deceased) twin were both Army, and my step-dad was Air Force. I nearly married into the Army family myself. I have a great respect for our armed forces. I will not be able to get to the service tomorrow and it’s bothering me. Someone buy me a poppy, please?
Interestingly enough, there was a guy on Jeopardy last night wearing a poppy. He’s Canadien. It’s the Tournament of Champions going on right now.
He was in 3rd place going into final Jeopardy. But, he was the only one who got the answer right, and so moves on to the next round.
I moved to the Netherlands a while ago, and they don’t do the poppy thing here. So I brought a stack of them with me when I came, and I’ve been wearing them since the first of the month. For a while I was the only one at work with one (it’s a large, international institution with few Canadians), but some guys who went to London last week came back with the British version.
When I was living in Flanders a few years ago I actually was able to pick real poppies (they grow everywhere) and wear those, but they tend to wilt after a few hours.
I have been wearing mine since the last Sunday in October - but I work as a full-time reservist so I live and breathe the reminder.
The BBC have been wearing them for weeks already… I kinda think it devalues it a bit.
The week before is fair enough, but you start seeing them in early- to mid-October which lessens the impact by the time it gets to 11 Nov.
He’s from Quebec? Were he and Alex chatting in French together?
I’ll buy one specially for you tonight, Ginger. lissla, I don’t think you’re supposed to make them stay on - they’re supposed to mysteriously disappear and then you go buy another one. 
(But I stick mine on to stay on, too - pinned through the petals. I’m a pacifist from a long line of Mennonite pacifists, but I buy a poppy every year - I’ll not disrespect other people’s service.)