Poppy

[Muteswan]

We’ve just come home from visiting my eldest son and his family complete with new baby
Our 3 year old granddaughter took a fancy to my Remembrance Day poppy so I told her she could keep it, and the next day my son told us that there was something waiting at the house for us. It was this :

Without telling anyone, she drew, coloured and cut out the poppy and gave it to us to replace the one I gave her.
It’s no wonder I think she is special.

 

[Jack2jack]

Priceless mate, there are something's money cant buy.

 

[dickythorpe]

https://poets.org/poem/flanders-fields

 

[Jack2jack]

https://poets.org/poem/flanders-fields

Nice that Dicky, what really upsets us around this time, is when we think of my wife's great great uncle, who is buried in Northern France, he was 19, I think when he lost his life in WW1. And to think he has never been visited by any family in all this time, we've talked about going over a few times to see his grave and pay our respects, but never got round to it, hopefully one day we will.
RIP

 

[dickythorpe]

I went to Vimy Ridge when I was 13. It was eerie and a real eye opener.
War poetry was part of my GCSE English literature syllabus and I wish I'd been more wiser then to have understood and remembered more.

 

[Darran]

Beautiful,absolutely beautiful.