My new hero

Elton John!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6140710.stm

Also, I would like to see a representative of the National Secular Society standing with the religious representatives at the Cenotaph next year. Yet another example of the faithful being valued over the faithless.

This is getting out of hand

How the utter hell have the colour of poppies become the province of religious idiots? We commemorate the dead, whose blood unquestionably flowed red. That's the symbolism of it - not to be tampered with or pulled into this madness in the press. It's not a matter of political correctness, it's a matter of biological correctness.

If one wears a white-centred poppy in honour of those executed with white squares pinned to their chests, then that's fair enough - that doesn't cheapen their honour or memory with religious claptrap.

Here's the link to the article on the BBC - see if it makes any sense at all to you:
http://http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6131464.stm