Southend Poppy

[Swiss Tony]

This is quite interesting. No pushback yet. When I mentioned a few years back on here that I would be remembering those that lost their lives fighting for our freedom, and would be wearing the poppy, I got attacked on here by two of the lefties. My dad volunteered at the young age of 19 to fight for this country, after a few months training, he was parachuting into France along with thousands of others, as a Royal Marine. He was shot at with bullets whistling all around him as he descended down on his parachute. Many of the others that came down weren't so lucky. He was straight into battle against the Germans, and saw some terrible things that he refused to talk about. He lost some new made friends in his unit. They were pushed back to Dunkirk. Then he got lucky at Dunkirk, and lucky on the boat that recued him as he saw a lot of death. And I really appreciate my dad going to war to fight for country and freedom, and I really appreciate all those that weren't so lucky, and gave the ultimate sacrifice for the same cause. So I will be buying this poppy, or another, and I will be proudly wearing it, and remembering all those brave soldiers, most of which were not in the army before the first or second world wars, but just normal young men, before volunteering for the freedom that we enjoy today.

Amen to all above, my dad was part of the forgotten army in Burma and malaya God bless him, my dads metals are on the side board every remembrance week and my poppy will be worn with pride.