How do you feel about poppy wearing?

I always buy and wear a Poppy just as I wear my Air Ambulance badge or Marie Curie Daffodil.
It is supporting a worthwhile charity.
DS is serving in the military and may be in need of help from the RBL one day.

I seldom go out anywhere to need to wear or buy a poppy

Me neither, but I still find and buy one.

It has nothing to do with glorifying war

No matter how others see it, I shall continue as I always have
I know what I believe in and why
That's enough for me.

Sometimes GrannyRose51 a country has no alternative but to enter a war, in which case we can still remember the soldiers who died and their families.It does us no harm to do this and is the least we can do for them.

I am always happy to purchase and wear a poppy each year.
A reminder of all those mainly young men who died often in awful circumstances in the wars.Money for the British Legion too.

The last time I wore a red poppy was in 1995, the year after my father died. If I remember correctly, that was supposed to be the last time we commemorated the second world war and plans had been made to do things differently with more emphasis on the future and less looking back. But the Royal British Legion objected to being sidelined and insisted we carry on with the standard bearing processions.
What you have got to remember is that poppy day isn't a national day of commemoration as much as a fund-raising event for a charity.
I too am very ambivalent and object to people saying "we must remember" because in some respects remembering the sacrifice hasn't done us much good. If we'd learned the lessons that we should have done, we would never have gone into Iraq or Afghanistan. And we certainly wouldn't have been so ready to give up the freedoms others had died for because we were scared of catching a cold.

My grandfather served in the first WW. He was at Ypres and the Somme.
He wouldn’t talk about it (he died before I was born) but my mum says he would only say it was hell on earth.

I wear a poppy, not to glorify war or for any jingoistic reasons, but to remember those who died or suffered due to the unnecessary horror that is war.

I've never felt wearing a poppy glorified war - I wear mine to remember all the Servicemen and woman who have died during wars all over the world. This year I will also be thinking of soldiers (of all nationalities) in the Ukraine. They don't want to be fighting but it's been forced upon them.