Donal Fallon: “Poppygate” è andato troppo oltre – La Gran Bretagna deve rispettare il diritto delle persone a non indossare il simbolo

I grew up in Britain and the changes I’ve seen with regard to this in the last 25 years is insane. You always saw plenty of people wearing poppies and a remembrance day parade, but it now seems to have turned into some sort of cosplay event. It has coincided with the last of the generation of people who fought in the world wars dying, people who never shouted loudly about their experiences.

If I’m ever home around this time now I will see people actually dressed up in uniforms as if they are in Belgium in 1917, and people decorating as if it is Christmas. I refuse to believe that many of these people, and those who shout loudest about anybody not offering Maximum Respect, have seriously learnt any of the lessons that the world wars offered us. This is why the poppy has now extended to any troop who has “served their country”, even if meant shooting brown people in the desert or civilians on the streets of Ireland.