'Misunderstanding' over war veteran's Remembrance Day poppies stall moved on at shopping centre
ABCThe Tasmanian RSL has stepped in to smooth the waters over claims by a Vietnam veteran that he was asked to leave a Tasmanian shopping centre because he was selling poppies. "For me it's like going back 50 years when I came home from Vietnam: 'yeah, thanks very much, now go home and get lost'," Mr Cooper said. Mr Cooper said he and fellow volunteers had gone to the shopping centre to sell poppy pins and badges for Remembrance Day to raise funds for the RSL. RSL relies on poppy sales to help veterans Mr Rowe said selling poppies and other merchandise in the lead up to Anzac Day and Remembrance Day was the RSL's main way of raising money. "They thank us and that makes your day, that makes your day very much, so when someone says 'thanks for your service'," he said The Knight Frank spokeswoman said the issue was caused by one of the poppy sellers and she understood the RSL had disciplined that person, something Mr Cooper denied.
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