I said where I came in that Glenn Miller played a concert at Wycombe Abbey (Which was a girl's school.. ands very attractive they all looked in their 'Outdoor Uniform' of blue velvet hooded capes)
It may have been there where he played on despite air raids, or that may be a myth.
Anyway, I always wear a Poppy. I think it is remembrance of all of the horror and waste of war. It wasn't just the Brits, or even the 'enemy' who died in combat. It was families, communities ewtc., who were either killed in war or suffered the consequences. It always had results far beyond those wh