Thanks Rosie, I'd not read that whole poem before. It's nice to see someone actually getting the point of Remembrance rather than a whole bitchfest about what colour poppy to wear.
As a child at school we were taught about the whole relevance of poppies, and at that time we were only 30 and 60 years after the World Wars so it was still very personal in that all our parents and/or grandparents had been affected. (My granddad lost an arm at Normandy, my treasured family heirloom is something my great granddad made while he was a POW in WWI.) I'd hate for it all to be consigned to a vaguely recognised 'history' for the next generation.