I've said this a number of times.
My father was born in Ireland when it was part of Britain.
He came to mainland Britain as an infant.
He was conscripted into the British Army in 1939 and had no problem with that, apart from the fact that he'd rather have stayed at home, if it's all the same to you.
He's dead now but he never wore a poppy. Neither does my English mother who got engaged to him in 1944, on the eve of D-Day, and was conscripted into London Transport as a bus conductress. That was very dangerous, but no more dangerous than going about your business in other target cities.
It's because of my father's background that I would say that that the wearing of poppies is political. Though he didn't wear one, I do. But I didn't serve. I didn't cower under bombs like my mother did. And she doesn't feel the need to wear one either.