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Old 15-10-2018, 06:21 PM #1
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Default The WHITE Poppy?

St John Ambulance to let volunteers wear white remembrance poppy



St John Ambulance is allowing its volunteers to wear the pacifist white poppy for the first time.

The 141-year-old first-aid organisation’s dress code change, a month before the centenary of the first world war armistice, was welcomed by the Peace Pledge Union (PPU), which distributes the alternative to the Royal British Legion’s red poppy.

The history of St John Ambulance is tightly bound up with the Battle of the Somme, the horrors of which inspired the red poppy tradition. Its volunteers died trying to save lives in the trenches.

The PPU is hoping more than 100,000 white poppies will be sold from Monday. It believes the red poppy symbolises remembrance of British armed forces and its allies, rather than enemies and civilians who also died in wars.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...emembrance-day

I think i will file this in the "i want to believe in an ideal world but will willfully ignore the real world in which I live" category (as my "you could not make this sh1t up" section is chokka)

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