I'm afraid I'm more in Jack Campin's camp on this. Yes the charities in question do a job that needs doing and I would never diss their efforts. My quid went in the tin as it does every year. But even the Germans had God on their side. The bastard Hun who shot my great Uncle Jimmy to pieces at Suvla Bay was only a bastard Hun by accident of birth. Can't think of Uncle Jimmy without thinking of him as well. He doesn't get much of a mention in any of our military parades on Remembrance Day. That's why I'll buy a poppy but won't pin it on.