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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Royal British Legion’s annual Poppy Appeal
runs from Thursday 26 October 2017. This year, the Legion is once again calling
on the nation to ‘rethink Remembrance’, encouraging people to remember the
fallen without forgetting the living.</FONT></DIV>
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<LI><FONT face="Times New Roman">The red poppy is a universal symbol of
Remembrance <U>and</U> hope – hope for our beneficiaries to overcome their
difficulties with our help, and hope for a peaceful world.</FONT></LI></UL>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">This year, the British Legion is recreating
the famous poem in poppies:</FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 24px"><STRONG><FONT
face=Helvetica><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 8.4pt" color=#686868>In Flanders Fields –
copy split by location</FONT></FONT></STRONG></P>
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<TD width=217 readability="0"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>London, Royal Hospital Chelsea </FONT>
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<TD width=283 readability="3"><FONT color=#333333 size=2 face=Helvetica>In
Flanders fields the poppies blow </FONT>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>Between the crosses, row on row,</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD width=217 readability="0"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>Sage Gateshead </FONT>
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<TD width=283 readability="3"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>That mark our place; and in the sky </FONT>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>The larks, still bravely singing, fly</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD width=217 readability="0"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>Dover, White Cliffs </FONT>
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<TD width=283 readability="5"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>Scarce heard amid the guns below. </FONT>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>We are the Dead. Short days ago</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD width=217 readability="0"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>Dunkirk Beach </FONT>
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<TD width=283 readability="1"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>Loved and were loved, and now we lie, </FONT>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>In Flanders fields.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD width=217 readability="0"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>Cardiff, Cardiff Bay </FONT>
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<TD width=283 readability="1"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>Take up our quarrel with the foe: </FONT>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>To you from failing hands we throw</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD width=217 readability="0"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>National Memorial Arboretum </FONT>
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<TD width=283 readability="1"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>The torch; be yours to hold it high. </FONT>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>If ye break faith with us who die</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD width=217 readability="0"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>Salford Quays </FONT>
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<TD width=283 readability="1"><FONT color=#333333 size=2 face=Helvetica>We
shall not sleep, though poppies grow </FONT>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px"><FONT color=#333333 size=2
face=Helvetica>In Flanders fields.</FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<DIV><A
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<DIV>Pictures here:</DIV>
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<DIV>Paul Fussell analyses the poem in his “The Great War and Modern Memory”
(pp. 248-9):</DIV>
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<DIV>“things fall apart two-thirds through . . . We finally see – and with a
shock – what the last six lines really are: they are a propaganda argument –
words like *vicious* and *stupid* would not seem to go too far – against a
negotiated peace”.</DIV>
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<DIV>What now t<FONT style='face: "Times' New roman?>he Royal British Legion’s
“<FONT face="Times New Roman">hope for a peaceful world</FONT>”?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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