Chris, you said:

Our ethnic minorities have even more reason to wear the poppy as if it had not been for the sacrifice of our men and women many of them would probably have suffered horrendously under Hitler

Chris, it seems that it is you who is in need of some education. The sacrifice made by Indian, African and West Indian soldiers was immense --- it is a debt that shall never be repaid. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu, Sikh and Muslim Indian soldiers were killed and injured in the two World Wars. For anyone not to acknowledge this, or make accusations of ethnic minority children needing to recognise what 'we' did for 'them', many of whom have ancestors who fought in the two World Wars (I am married to a Sikh lady whose great grandfather and grandfather served in Europe) is as obscene as those who wish to deny in totality the whole meaning of Remembrance Day. It also projects them as being outside the history of this country, even though their forefathers died and fought against Nazism, and is divisive and discriminatory. If you want 'ethnic minorities' to feel part of our national story don't treat them like outsiders and don't condescend to them, especially when it comes to their contribution to the war effort, which was exemplary and should never ever be questioned or over looked.