In the UK we have poppy fascists every year- if you don't wear the remembrance symbol, you're ungrateful, and supporting "the enemy". No use pointing out that once-a-year remembrance is useless if you forget for the other 364 days, or that the war is fraudulent.

Look up Wooton Basset- it's the nearest town to where the dead soldiers are flown in, and they have developed a (recent) tradition of honouring them. Now being hijacked by poppy fascists and fascist fascists (Nick Griffith a couple of weeks ago).

Yes, they volunteered. But they were (a) often ignorant and (b) often driven by economic necessity. There are probably some idealists there, certainly some fascists and probably a number of sadists.