Poppies

[msmemory_archive]

This year, for the first time in my life, I haven't seen any aged veterans, forlornly selling paper poppies outside the supermarket. I think that's worse than actually seeing the dignified, shabby old men there.

Comments

[tpau]

what alwasy bothered me was the abscence of women anmong them. doesn't america have any female veterans??

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Not from WWI, I think.

[tpau]

hmm... peculiar