We generally donвЂ™t process orders over 100 poppies to Canada, and have stopped sending poppies to the USA because itвЂ™s too much work with customs and all. You can order white poppies from the Peace Pledge Union in Britain (as we and many others do), but keep in mind overseas delivery can take several weeks unless you make special arrangements for faster shipping. вЂ“ Teresa GagnГ©, co-founder Vancouver White Poppies The white poppy attracts questions, and gives me a chance to explain the nuances of my support. I believe they deserve recognition and support, but for years I was uncomfortable wearing a red poppy, because of the undercurrent of promotion and recruitment for current and future wars that I detect in many public events around the topic of supporting veterans. I have always had respect and sympathy for veterans, who put their life, health and family on the line to serve.

The following year the newly founded Peace Pledge Union joined the CWG in the distribution of the poppies and later took over their annual promotion. The Guild stressed that the white poppy was not intended as an insult to those who died in the First World War вЂ“ a war in which many of the women lost husbands, brothers, sons and lovers. A member of the No More War Movement suggested that the British Legion should be asked to imprint вЂNo More WarвЂ™ in the centre of the red poppies instead of вЂHaig FundвЂ™ and failing this, pacifists should make their own flowers.ДЄ few years later the idea was again discussed by the Co-operative WomenвЂ™s Guild who in 1933 produced the first white poppies to be worn on Armistice Day (later called Remembrance Day). In Britain, the idea of decoupling Armistice Day, the red poppy and later Remembrance Day from their military culture dates back to 1926, just a few years after the British Legion was persuaded to try using the red poppy as a fundraising tool in Britain.

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