I'm a bit jaded with petitions, myself, as they seem to be rife on Facebook for absolutely everything these days. So I'm writing directly to the head of PR at the British Legion (a Becky Warren) to express my point of view that the version they're sponsoring has altered the song to the point of removing its central message. I have in my time been a poppy seller and I have also recently written a song (using the "dulce et decorum est" quote, as it happens, as used by Wilfred Owen) inspired by a National Theatre of Wales production about the Somme called Mametz. My song was also inspired by hearing a survivor from WWII describing his own revulsion to great parades and processions to commemorate the start of WWI. We can honour the soldiers who died without sanitising or glorifying the war they died in.