Editing Robert Fisk (section)

===Remembrance Day===
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For [[Remembrance Day]] in 2011, Fisk wrote that his father "old Bill Fisk became very ruminative about the Great War. He learned that Haig had lied, that he himself had fought for a world that betrayed him, that 20,000 British dead on the first day of the Somme – which he mercifully avoided because his first regiment, the Cheshires, sent him to Dublin and Cork to deal with another 1916 "problem" – was a trashing of human life. In hospital and recovering from cancer, I asked him once why the Great War was fought. 'All I can tell you, fellah,' he said, 'was that it was a great waste.' And he swept his hand from left to right. Then he stopped wearing his [[Remembrance poppy|poppy]]. I asked him why, and he said that he didn't want to see 'so many damn fools' wearing it."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Fisk|first=Robert|date=5 November 2011|title=Robert Fisk: Do those who flaunt the poppy on their lapels know that they mock the war dead?|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-do-those-who-flaunt-poppy-their-lapels-know-they-mock-war-dead-6257416.html|access-date=15 November 2020|work=The Independent}}</ref> He returned to the subject in 2014, the standfirst summarised his experience "My family was haunted by my father's experience on the Somme and the loss of his friends. Why do we pay homage to the dead but ignore the lessons of their war?"<ref>{{Cite news|last=Fisk|first=Robert|title=WWI Centenary: My father threw away his poppy in disgust|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/first-world-war-centenary-my-father-threw-away-his-poppy-disgust-9645299.html|date=5 August 2014|access-date=15 November 2020|work=The Independent}}</ref> and in 2016 where he said "His example was one of great courage. He fought for his country and then, unafraid, he threw his poppy away. Television celebrities do not have to fight for their country – yet they do not even have the guts to break this fake conformity and toss their sordid poppies in the office waste paper bin."<ref>{{Cite news|date=3 November 2016|last=Fisk|first=Robert|title=The poppy has become a symbol of racism – I have never worn one, and now I never will|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/poppy-symbol-racism-never-worn-one-never-will-robert-fisk-remembrance-day-first-world-war-second-world-war-a7394976.html|access-date=15 November 2020|work=The Independent}}</ref>