While we're on poppies especially those at the Tower of London - another argument is that rather than helping us appreciate the full horrors of war through an accurate "remembrance" that would lead onto the idea of "never again" -
what we have is a safe symbolic emblem which endlessly allows politicians and service chiefs to recycle myths of glory courage and sacrifice.
Personally I'm with the WW1 poet Rupert Brook who wrote after a gas attack on the western front.
"If you could hear at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children argent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori"
(how sweet and glorious it is to die for your country)
I've n0ot quoted all the gruesome details the poem describes.
Personally this is what I will be reflecting on.