So, have you got yours?
What? You want more than one line?
Ok, for those outside the UK you may not know but every year the Royal British Legion runs the Poppy Appeal from about mid-october until remeberance sunday to raise money to provide physical, finanical and social support to those who are currently serving or have served in the armed forces.
This appeal has probably the highest profile of any charity in the UK and the poppy is pretty much ubiquitous in British media and in day to day life during the period of the appeal - politicians, tv presenters, media personalitys and members of the general public will wear one irrespective of political affiliation. In fact for an appeal supporting the armed forces it has always struck me as suprisingly non-political - people tend to support it even if they are anti the specific wars we're involved in (or at least so it seems). It's also surprising how much support it gets given that the armed forces have never really held a 'special' place in our culture - we've always been somewhat uncomfortable around our armed forces.
So my questions are thus. If your in the UK do you take part in the appeal? What do you feel about it? How common are poppies in your workplace/day to day life? For those outside the UK, do you have any similar appeals that reach this level of exposure and non-partisan support? If so what?
I work with members of the armed forces, so you can imagine the poppies are pretty ubiquitous at my workplace and of course you see them constantly on tv, but I'm wondering what it's like in other people's work.
