Interesting how Keith A of Hertford refers to "sacrifice" in this thread. On other threads he reckons that dying in battle through jingoistic ignorance was a justified endeavour.

I used to wear a poppy for the same reasons as others; expectation and not sticking out for what shallow people would call a bad reason. If governments send people to die unnecessarily, the least they can do is look after the veterans rather than expect charities to subsidise the blood on politicians' hands.

There are no WW1 veterans left. Time to move on rather than the sickening revision of history presently being popularised by attention seeking "historians" and their impressionable sycophants.

I wore no poppy this year or last and nobody noticed. Progress.