Terms such as remembrance and "lest we forget" seem to be lost in some weird translation.

Whilst most are agreed that we recognise the awful carnage and waste, there are still some who think war is noble.

I wonder how many dead young men would, if they knew, weep at the sight of the last ceramic poppy being laid at The Tower at 11.00am today?

We put a 13 year old child in a soldier's uniform, and surrounded by soldiers, we made him stand and salute like a soldier and lay the poppy.

Just in case we run out of cannon fodder, we glorify that which Western civilisation should be deeply ashamed of. If it is about "never again" have him wearing a pair of jeans and a hoody. Not a modern soldier's uniform. A WW1 uniform maybe, but the message that we haven't learned is typical of war mongering generals.

Soldiering is a professional choice, of free will and based on whatever the soldier bases his or her choice on. Not some jingoistic sense of pride and duty.

We will never learn whilst it is military mindset that leads the remembering.