A remembrance Sunday Meditation

[Magda Hassan]

Thanks for this Peter. Don't mind a bit of Eric Bogle. I noticed this week how many people on the UK media etc have been wearing the poppy and how stupid and inappropriate it all looks. No connection to it all and no understanding. All marketing. Also, the government sends the poor sods to war so they should also pay for all the ongoing damage it causes them and their families and not go begging to the public to support their lack of diplomatic skills. When they sell them here it was just on that day but it seems to have been since mid October that I have been seeing people wearing them. And I read the Guardian article too and couldn't agree more with him. Haven't read the comments yet. Hope they are some what enlightened. There needs to be some sort of alternative to this manufactured pap. It is going to be nauseating by the looks of it in the next year as the anniversary of the first world war is marketed to us all. Much to meditate on.