remembering the mass murder and highly discriminate slaughter that our government inflicted on successive generations of conscripted soldiers is not the same thing as mindlessly waving a flag and chanting jingoistic slogans, to cheer on this elite over that one, on the basis of language or religion or whatever other anachronism you want to pull out of the unmarked shallow grave.
this is a meaningful holiday, if you understand it properly.
don't let the bastards fuck with your head.
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.