I guess the problem is that some forms of honouring the war dead and living veterans, without remembering context, can fall back into the tropes of heroism and noble but worthwhile sacrifice in war that the Great War somehow failed to permanently disabuse us of.
Anyway here's a poem.
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.
GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
Rememberance Day was and always should be about the still-thwarted but relevant-as-ever sense of "never again". The worst possible thing we can do with such a solemn occasion is to sleepwalk back into allowing respect for those who fought and died to become glorification or militarism.
Lest we forget.
It's why I asked what you want this thread to be about since anything more than simply "RIP" is getting shut down immediately.
