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Originally Posted by Buddahaid
Oh good grief! I'm sorry I read that. What matters is that we DO remember, not in the details of how.
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True, but the question does always remain...do we sully their names if we do not seek to bring about peace and the end of warfare...or do we do it if we avoid fighting a just war? That question becomes especially complicated when you look at the origins of the poppy in the First World War which, unlike the second, was a war that happened because, as Blackadder put it, it was too much effort to not have a war. It's very hard to consider WWI as a 'just' war.
Either which way it probably does no good to overthink matters, but I do have my concerns about making the poppy some kind of hallowed symbol, and provoking outrage whenever it seems that the symbol has been slighted by someone. I think that undermines the point of it somewhat.
