Also the poppy became politicized in the North when people were forced to wear them in workplaces and bullied into wearing them. If people want to remember the war dead then that is their right to do so. Anyone who doesn't want to participate also has that right. Watching the television everyone is wearing poppies, i saw that x-factor the other night and they were all wearing poppies and i guarantee 90% of them couldn't tell you that two world wars occured. So by all means remember the dead but don't use it as a symbol to get one over the ideological enemy or bully people ito wearing them which is what has occured in the north.