I am watching CBC’s coverage of the US mid-term elections because they’re slightly less annoying than CNN/C-SPAN/Fox/ABC/etc. All the Canadian News people are wearing poppy pins, which led me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole on how the poppy flower is a symbol for remembering military service members. It dates back to a WWI era poem, and also inspired France to do create a similar bleuet de France.
It also led me to this 2015 article in which some Canadians considered it “defacing” the symbol to use a safer pin design than an inches long stick pin. I’m just glad USians aren’t the only that get mouth-frothing stupid about arbitrary symbols. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/remembrance-day-poppy-pin-that-won-t-fall-off-1.3311799
Seriously not a fan of people stretching out when they wear the poppy. It’s for November 11.
The legion has been selling them for 2 weeks or more now so I mean, I think they are the fucking authority there bud.
Cadets give them out prior, it makes sense to put it on when you get it vs carrying it around until you can find a place to store it.
Nov 1- 11 is acceptable