Growing number of people don't know what poppy badges mean

Good grief! Astonished to learn from BBC Breakfast TV item the extent to which younger people in UK are becoming ignorant of what the poppy means, particularly at this time of year. One thing to know what it is and make a choice to wear one or not. Quite another not to know what it is in the first place. One person when asked, wondered if it might be a political party emblem - the Labour Party perhaps? Presumably because it's red!

And for anyone reading this who is wondering what the poppy DOES mean, it's a symbol of remembrance of all those who gave their lives in the wars of the 20th century, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. Today is Remembrance Day, and since the end of the First World War, a 2 minute silence of remembrance has been observed throughout the UK at 11am on the 11th of November (the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month). That's what the poppy is all about.