It is not an insult to want to remember all the dead of all wars - such as the holocaust of up to 10 million children over just the last decade in wars around the world.  I used the phrase "glorious dead" as that is the phrase used on many memorials that are predominantly only to service personnel and for no other reason, pejorative or celebratory.

As a public schooler, I have many friends who have served or are serving in the forces, and I support them to the hilt, especially in the face of inexcusable government incompetence that puts them there without the kit they need to minimise the risk to them, but in so many cases, including the current two main theatres in Iraq & Afghanistan they should simply not be there.  They are politicians' pawns.  And the spineless ones lining up in the front row before the cenotaph tomorrow need not just to remember their sacrifice, important as that is, but need teaching never to forget the consequences of their bellicose policies.