There was a question earlier on one of the Web Sites asking if you feel pressured into wearing buying a poppy?

Question

I don't. I buy them out of respect, but I generally do not wear them.

I get one every year at work and have about six or seven. I put them in a rubber and they are on display all year round. I think that the Earl Haig fund do a great job in treating wounded and ex solders and long my it continue.

There are even a couple in the house that my dad bought.

Answer 1

how can anyone feel pressured into buying a poppy...we should all remember those who died for us and not gripe about it...get a grip world..if it wasn't for those brave people we wouldn't have the world we know today

Answer 2

No I Don,t feel pressured into buying a Poppy , I buy one out of Respect and the Memory of those who gave their LIVES defending their Country and the Freedom from Tyranny , It,s a TRAGEDY that the SCUM that,s Posing as a Government ARE DESECRATING THEIR MEMORY , by selling the Country down the river with their Treachery and Treasonable Performance

Answer 3

We have to respect and remember the men and women who fought and died for our freedom. The poppy is a symbol of this.

If people feel pressured to "donate" a few cents for a poppy, then by all means let them be the first in line to join up and fight for our country now!!

Answer 4

as far as i'm conscious, there's no regulation that announces you should placed on a poppy. in my opinion, i'm happy to bear in mind those who fought and suffered and died to maintain freedom. My uncle between them, who spent quite a few negative years engaged on the Burma Railway as a prisoner of the eastern. to assert that it can make no enormous difference if we were all speaking German or eastern now might want to be ludicrous. For a commence, a tremendous many people woul dnot be the following in any respect, as there might want to were an huge lack of existence if Britain were invaded by Germany. people of all sorts might want to were slaughtered without mercy. the possibilities that you may want to exist, or that i might want to exist, or that Yahoo! solutions might want to exist for that count number, is amazingly small. And do I call this freedom? sure, I do. compared to what existence might want to were like lower than a Nazi dictatorship, the favourite international, with all its faults, it a picnic. i will not understand in any respect why you imagine it does not count number that we received the warfare, yet as I reported, no human being is forcing you to placed on a poppy in case you do not favor to. many people do not. Frankly i imagine you're being somewhat melodromatic.

Answer 5

It is generally felt by the British legion that you do not have to buy a Poppy as the men and woman of all conflicts gave their life's and were wounded for you to have the freedom of Joice weather or not you do buy one.

Answer 6

Yes, I agree with you, I also buy a poppy. It is interesting, however, that nobody seems to complain about all the other tin rattlers, many of whom seem to represent semi-politicised charities who operate more like businesses. Would a charity ever really want to solve the problem it was set up to deal with? Think about it.

Answer 7

I don't think people do feel pressured - I know I don't, I'd say most people buy them out of respect for those who fought for our country, and it's a nice way to show national pride.

Answer 8

No - I support my veterans any chance I get. Sometimes I can't and I may feel guilty but not because I feel pressured but because of how great this country is because of the sacrificed made.

Answer 9

No one forces me to buy a poppy. I go out of my way to buy one.
I feel honoured and proud to both buy and wear it.

Answer 10

if you feel pressured you have no heart