Rememberance and Tradition

2 Key facts in any countries have been kept for many hundreds of years.
1) Wars have been wages for thousands of year, and provided the necessities for the rise and fall of many empires and civilisations.

2) Many traditions are still in circulation and a few have become worldwide.

Using the UK as an example with similar stories occurring around the world.

Our Country with its history has created a good many traditions. Many of these traditions have stemmed from the Wars that were fought by the men and most recently women of the British Isles.

The most well-known of these post war traditions is the Poppy Appeal started at the end of the 1st World War. Its aim was to help provide funds to the wounded and maimed soldiers of WW1. This was reinforced when the world was once again plunged into war in 1939.

The symbol of the poppy came from the Poem in Flanders Fields, a battle ground of WW1. It has been used as a symbol of remembrance by Great Britain and its Commonwealth in helping to remind us of the people who gave their lives to help make a world for us to live in, in peace.

So why, remembering the starting reason, does a Islamic Group decide to burn poppies to protest issues in the middle east. The uproar it caused swept the nation like wildfire, and all other Muslim groups tried desperately to stand away from the extremism of the group.

When they burned the poppies, they shunned those men who died protecting many Muslims during WW2's Africa Campaign. Where if Hitler's forces had prevailed, more people from other faiths would have perished in a much wider holocaust. Instead they return to the roots of modern history and the crusades.

As an atheist, I can see the different beliefs of Islam, Christianity and Judaism. They all have common points, they all want to own Jerusalem, in essence they worship the same God, only the prophet of God is different and the prophets all have similar teachings and abilities to heal the sick and remove bad spirits.


I ask this of you, in the world we live in today. All 7 billion (and growing) of us, we must begin to reach out to each other and apply the same rules to each land giving consistence and prosperity to all. I believe this is essential for us if we are to spread from our home world to explore the unknown in space. We must become a worldwide team that works for Humankind, not for a religion or a country but for the World. Where everyone having their own strengths and weaknesses and everybody is held as equal individuals not matter of religious views, race, sexual orientation or gender.


Personally in the last year I have only come to believe in a few things.

1) This world is the only planet my feet will walk on.

2) The people in this world are losing faith in themselves, this creates mistrust and suspicion.

What I would like to see a world of peace and stability instead of politics, terrorism, denial and trustlessness.

When I remember those who died, I don't believe they died fighting for a religion, it was for something greater, and it was for freedom. No man or woman deserves to be oppressed or forced by rules of law to bow down. For every person is a singularity in a collective, and each person has a voice. A voice they can use to say their opinions and thoughts.

Whether they are man, woman or child, hetero or homo sexual, Muslim, Christian or Jewish, Black, White or Asian, I believe in freedom and justice for those who are oppressed and persecuted for wanting to have their opinions/beliefs.