Without wishing to minimise the significance of those who are prepared to risk injury and death fighting in whichever conflict embroils them, I do find this obssession with commemorating old wars somewhat futile and at best legitimises glorious sacrifice when the opposite is in fact often the case.

Time to let go of all that useless baggage and in any case remembering " lest we forget " presupposes one can learn from history which is of course utter nonsense. By all means wallow in sentiment if you think it somehow chastening but really it doesn't matter a jot, least of all to those rotting in the ground.