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I don't think troops are really venerated in the UK. This, after all, is what Kipling's "Tommy" was all about. http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_tommy.htm

There's some veneration in a distant way for the RAF following the war, and the Sun newspaper runs its own pro-military campaign, but it's not something that comes up too often in political language. "Poppy day" is becoming more politicised in worrying ways, though.




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