Precisely - it is a disgrace that the contribution of certain of the colonies that are now Commonwealth nations has been ignored in the past and correcting that is a good thing - but not by ignoring a different set of contributions instead. There's no reason it has to be one or the other.
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(From World War II, but you can recognise both types of contributions together)