Well I think in the current climate people sometimes forget what it is about, and, whilst as an ex-Soldier who served for a long time, I feel we should remember, but will the future generations lose the meaning in their own desire for remembering their own time? Whilst the Soldiers in my generation who fought, and of the current who are fighting, we had a choice, we volunteered, we were paid to fight! (I would often joke to young Soldiers who complained -- well, you took the Queen's shilling!)
Do we need a lot more emphasis on the two World Wars and possibly Korea? Where there was a serious threat to our Country directly or indirectly, but more importantly that the majority of men who died didn't volunteer, they were forced to go and many died or, like my Father, survived, but were never the same. It is the thoughtful consideration of the fact that these poor men who didn't want to fight nonetheless did so as they felt it their duty, and many paid with their lives.
Should we be thinking more of that fact and remembering them with respect but also as a point of an "anti-war" celebration which it also is? Will it more likely be remembered and "celebrated" that way?