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I've considered myself anti-war ever since I first read about the existence of conscientious objectors and from that on to the work of war poets when I was about 12.

A particularly strong example being Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum Est':

"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 gas-shells dropping softly 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 flound’ring 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."

During the time around Remembrance Sunday every November I wear a WHITE poppy, rather than the red ones of the British Legion - a poppy for peace, which still honours the dead, yet does not glorify war. That gets a reaction from most which would probably equate with that you receive when abstaining from acceptance of the "support our troops" culture over there. I feel I understand at least a little how difficult it can prove to be, while supporting Peace, to maintain a 100% commitment to non-violence, even in the cases which would be considered self-defence!