Remembrance Day a National Holiday?
My mother and I were chatting this morning about Remembrance Day. She was excited about some idea she came up with.
What an awesome idea and a great way to get people who are wearing their poppies after November 11th to really fight for a cause.
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"Leesa, why don't use this campaign of yours to push for a national holiday for our vets? That way, we can honour them properly."
What an awesome idea and a great way to get people who are wearing their poppies after November 11th to really fight for a cause.
Technorati: remembrance day, november 11, poppy, veterans day, red poppy, canada, national holiday
posted by Leesa Barnes @ 7:55 AM
1 Comments:
At 6:39 PM,
Anonymous said…
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow, between the crosses row on row. The poppy in itself is a flower, nothing more, but as a symbol (right now) it inspires a nation to remember. The tricky thing about symbols is sometimes they become more important than that which they symbolize. Remembrance of the men and women whose sacrifices gave and continue to give us the freedoms we have grown accustomed to is a marvelous idea; unfortunately, like the freedoms, we will grow accustomed to the poppy if they are worn all year and soon the poppy will symbolize nothing at all. You can try to inspire everyone to remember these sacrifices every day of every year for the rest of their lives by wearing a poppy on your lapel, but you will not succeed. You will only rob the poppy of its ability to make and entire nation stop and remember.
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