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wonder how long we will have to wait this year before GR put a poppy on the home page.

Other sites I use already have put one up.
Jan x

Around about 8th November

:-D :-D :-D :-D

Drove to the West Surrey FHS event on Saturday - lovely drive in Surrey with huge Poppies on various sign posts by the roadside.

Genes is always late on this - like most things they just don't get the message. ;-)

Why are they late? I thought Remembrance Day was 11th - another week.

Remembrance day is on the 9th of November this year ;-) It's on the Sunday closest to Armitice Day (which is on the 11th).

Remberance day in 2018 will be on the 11th. The 100th anniversary of the Armistice will be on a Sunday. :-)

There was a bit of an uproar on FB when somebody claimed that an 89 year old war veteran was told to stand outside of the local supermarket in the cold, rather than in the warm foyer where they usually collect for the annual poppy appeal.

It turns out he chose to stand outside because there seemed to be more people to sell poppies to out there.

http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/taunton_news/11559795.Royal_British_Legion_backs_Taunton_store_in_poppy_selling_row/

In war time women turn to red
swivel-up scarlet and carmine
not in solidarity with spilt blood
but as a badge of beating hearts.

This crimson is the shade of poets
silenced for speaking against torture,
this vermillion is art
surviving solitary confinement,

this cerise defies the falling bombs
the snipers taking aim at bread-queues,
this ruby’s the resilience of girls
who tango in the pale-lipped face of death.

Maggie Butt

I wonder if Google will support it? They did away with mentioning Christmas last year.

Hi everyone,

This year, although we won't be adding a poppy to our logo on the main site we have changed our background and profile picture on our Facebook page in the spirit of remembrance and encourage all of our members to honour the heroes in their family how they feel most appropriate.

Regards,

Shelley

Why not on here???

Its Disgraceful....!! :-|

Careful Mersey sweetie... xx <3
You should know by now the slightest bit of tinkering on here by the GR techies usually leads to problems.
(and more error messages) :-D :-D :-D

Techie now thats a larffff..... :-D ;-)

Counting to 10 !! Breathhhhhhhh...... :-P :-P


"RESPECT" comes to mind

Absolutely disgusting.
We are members of Genes Reunited, Why should Facebook get a poppy & not the Family History site. :-| :-| :-| :-|
Not impressed.

Absolutely unacceptable!!!

I do not use Facebook and never will.

I am a paying member of this site and have been for 10 years. I expect the poppy to be displayed on this site.
Forget about Facebook.

Rollo and Budgie are right - the techies have left the building and any attempt at a change by 'the team'(?) would mess up the site.

There's nothing to stop members adding their own poppies.

Not all members of GR are on facebook, or want to be.

I also think it is totally out of order, as this is a family history site promoting military records.

GR should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for being so two faced.

Does it really matter that much - do a few pixels on a website denote 'respect'? :-S