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CraigR Oct 29, 2007 13:23:25
Replying to shanshee_allures

The Earl set up his fund to help ex servicemen from all confilicts. This mission statement is still applied today. He set it up in 1921, so using your logic, anyone from WW2 shouldn't benefit as much as WW1 victims anyway.

"I don't begrudge the old guys their memories - course I don't, but I bet hardly anyone realises just how manipulative and cynical this whole 'fields of Flanders' imagery is now.
It's become a brand.

They can shove their poppies right up their arses (even tho they've got plastic stems now, not those sharp pointy ones)."


Thats just offensive vitriol, which I don't fully understand. Whats become a 'brand' exactly?

S shanshee_allures
shanshee_allures Oct 29, 2007 13:52:17
Replying to CraigR

I take exception to any funding from it going to those involved in Iraq and Afghanistan - maybe you think they're as worthy and on a par with the threat that ensued with 2nd and 1st wars, I don't - I'm sure Earl Haig wouldn't have either. I doubt if he would've ever forseen any of it, back then it was surely no nebulous 'war on terror'. It's as simple as that for me.

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