The bloodbath of World War One was never one of defending our country - it was a squabble between Empires.
If Remembrance Day was about the mourning and shame of the sacrificing of a generation so that "Gallant "Little Belgium" could add to its list of ten million slaughtered Congolese in pursuit of rubber, there would be no problem in buying a poppy.
It's this "defence of country" bullshit that makes it so hypocritically sickening.
The country was plunged into mass depression and poverty sandwiched neatly between the two avoidable World Wars - who wants to commemorate that?
Jim Carroll