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Naive and quixotic idealism  [message #37566] Tue, 24 October 2006 11:24 Go to previous message
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My poppies arrived last week - I'll start wearing them from 1st November. As usual, I expect I'll get a great deal of flak, insults, and worse. You see, I choose to wear a white poppy for Remembrance, not a red one.

"White Poppies for Peace were first made by the Women's Co-operative Guild in 1933. Members of the Guild - many of whom were mothers, sisters and widows of the men killed in WW1 - feared that the 'war to end all wars', in which their men had died, would be followed by an even worse war. The white poppy was a reminder of the horrors of war. People who wore it did so as a way of insisting that those in power should resist war; that conflicts should be resolved without violence and with justice.

Over 300 wars later, and after the slaughter of over 200 million people, the white poppy continues to be a powerful reminder of the world's failure to prevent war. It is a symbol of grief for everyone who has been harmed by war, but more importantly it is a symbol of our determination to work together to abolish war for good. The white poppy looks to the future; join us and help us make it non-violent. "

I rather suspect that I'm the only "out" pacifist on this board, but if anyone else is interested, more details on http://www.whitepoppy.org.uk


"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
 
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