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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 05:52 am (UTC)
I never think of the Home Guard as silly. There's nothing silly about trying to put out thousands of fires at once, or about enduring months of bombing for that matter.

I'm surprised you haven't heard of the white poppy, since it's such a British thing. Others have taken it up, of course. In this article, it makes me wonder about the freedom WWII veterans supposedly fought for:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2006/11/08/white-poppy.html?ref=rss

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