Bought another poppy today and will wear it proudly through today and into tomorrow.
As much as MagPEI is deplored in this thread his contribution is still important. He illlustrates a viewpoint that is of someone who is a couple of generations removed from everyday's existance being threatened by external forces. When we get so far removed from the conflict we can take the smaller things and blow them out of proportion compared to the bigger things. Ie War Rape, as much as war rape is a horrfic and terrible thing that was perpetrated by all sides of World War II, the damage left behind as a result if it pales in comparison to the further damages to the world Nazi Germany would have envoked.
If you want to argue morals I would suggest that war rape was something that was certainly not endorsed by British, American, or Canadian commanders, but yet was enshrined, glorified, and even monetarily subsidized by Himmler's Lebensborn program(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn).