Does it matter how you wear a poppy?

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I've always worn a poppy for remembrance day in November in the UK to show respect for those people who bravely fought in two world wars and other conflicts but I had no idea until I heard someone saying that you should be wearing the poppy upright and with the green leaf at eleven o'clock. I surprised until recently I knew about that but I seem to have heard some people getting quite annoyed by it and dictating how to wear and I remember someone saying didn't people fight so that we would be free and not be dictated to ?

I've never heard of that and I've worn a poppy almost every year

Do they always come with a leaf even

Never heard of that one before.

This is my badge from a couple of years ago

The leaf is indeed pointing towards where the 11 would be and I suppose it makes sense as a symbol but I can't see why people would get emotional about such a detail

Surely the whole point is that people remember the fallen

I didn't wear a poppy this year, but when I went out yesterday I noticed a lot of them were on the ground. I guess they slipped off or people just tossed them. And they're made of plastic.

How can people "never forget": when they can't even remember not to litter?

I wore a poppy and I took it off as soon as the ceremony was over.

I like the British poppy more than I like the Canadian one. It looks more realistic.