I don&#x27;t think troops are really venerated in the UK. This, after all, is what Kipling&#x27;s &quot;Tommy&quot; was all about. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kiplingsociety.co.uk&#x2F;poems_tommy.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kiplingsociety.co.uk&#x2F;poems_tommy.htm</a><p>There&#x27;s some veneration in a distant way for the RAF following the war, and the Sun newspaper runs its own pro-military campaign, but it&#x27;s not something that comes up too often in political language. &quot;Poppy day&quot; is becoming more politicised in worrying ways, though.