Just out of interest. I shall be in Ypres on the 11th November which is the anniversary of the end of the Great War, it is a public holiday in Belgium and thousands of people mainly Belgian men, women, and children will come to Flanders Fields to commemerate Men of the British Empire who died decades before most of the visitors were born, in defence of Belgian independence, the Rule of Law and respect for the individual against German militarism. I once asked my French mother-in-law who was in Paris during the occupation by the Nazis in World War 2 about her wearing of a poppy and the sometimes ambiguous attitude of some British people towards rememberance and she simply replied that the reason was that Britain had not been invaded and subjugated by force. Enough said!