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@jimmy_james
Maybe I'm viewing this through the rose tinted glasses of my youth, but I never felt the poppy was a contentious symbol until the last 10 years or so. In the early noughties in coastal West Sussex at least it was a symbol of respect for the war dead and surviving veterans and nothing more. Pretty much everyone would wear one for the period coving Remeberence Day and Armistice Day and then take them off. Mind you my home town was 99.9% white British, so there wasn't exactly a lot of cultural tension available to be stoked up by groups with an agenda.