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Fair enough.
Then again, despite the fact that I always observe the silence and wear the poppy (and am a supporting member of the Royal British Legion), I can well see that to some people, our efforts to remember our war dead may sit in stark and uncomfortable contrast to our complete disregard for the lives of so many Iraqis. Perhaps being implicated in the deaths of more than half a million Iraqis along with a total unwillingness to press for justice for other groups such as the Palestinians and the shoddy way in which we as a country have treated the widows and ex-servicemen on the Indian subcontinent, who fought alongside the men we seek to remember, makes our sombre ceremony seem wilfully blind and hypocritical.
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