Yep, put the "human" back into it. Massive military parades with marching bands, bishops leading mass praying and a bunch of royals and politicians (often of the war-mongering type themselves) laying wreaths all take the humanity out. When you take out the humanity you make war far easier to wage again. That's my point. Sometimes a focus on the small things, like your one soldier and a single poppy, or Jim's man in the trenches, or the young sister of the soldier killed in Helmand, speak far more to me about sacrifice and bravery than any of that grandeur.