Short text checking about Remembrance Day

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I would like some english people to check my text and tell me what they think of it :

" Remembrance Day poppies debated

Never has a four-petaled little red thing been the object of such a controversy as the Remembrance Day poppy. If it is usually supposed to stand as a mere way of paying tribute to the sacrifices made during World War One, some people are suspicious about its real use in today's modern background. The whole country seems split into two categories as exemplified here with four articles where Ruth Dudley Edwards, Ed West and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies from The Daily Telegraph as well as Robert Fisk from The Independant explicitly express their points of views in a intense debate.

As Ruth Dudley Ewards reminds us, the poppy primary vocation is a rather innocent one : it is " a charity that looks after the injured and the bereaved of our wars ". Ed West precises that the red flower is " a way of honouring those who went through hell " and affords
donations for " those still suffering ". All this sounds very far from any kind of aggressive statement. Yet, there are those who think that wearing it on your clothes makes you the carrier of a shameful second thought : a support to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for Sir Peter, or even a mockery of the war dead for for Robert Fisk. But it takes a bit more than some hazy accusations to query Mrs Edward's certainties : according to her, the poppy is nothing more that what it originally supposed to be, and one simply must not extrapolate on it. Ed West shares the same idea, Fisk's interpration being absurd to him. However, the Irish-born historian [Mrs Edwards] acknoledges that the poppy may be misused, for example by the BBC browbeating their presenters into wearing it.

The behavior of this TV channel and its consequences is the perfect illustration of what Robert Fisk castigates. As the son of a soldier of the Great War, he deeply feels concerned about the topic. Remarking that " all kinds of people who [have] no idea of the suffering of the Great War " are wearing a poppy " for social or work-related reasons ", the journalist considers it as an insult to the dead soldiers. Moreover, he points out that this symbol comes from " a propaganda poem " rather warlike. Actual wars are also what bother Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who considers the poppy has been hijacked by politicians to support wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which he is opposed to. It has surely not escaped the attention of Mrs Edwards who boldly call the statesmen to " butt out ". Mr West reminds us that 1914 remains one of the most delicate issue of Europe ; so delicate that it takes no more than a flower to arouse discord. "

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It may thus be quite surprising that Robert Fisk despise it so much, calling the wearers " pathetic creatures ".