7 thoughts on “For Memorial Day”

  1. Haunting.

    Here’s a youtube link to one of, if not my absolute, favorite anti-war songs:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMhemzN7sTc

    And here are the lyrics:

    A butcher yes that was my trade
    But the king’s shilling is now my fee
    A butcher I may as well have stayed
    For the slaughter that I see

    And the preacher in his pulpit
    Sermon: “Go and fight, do what is right”
    But he don’t have to hear these guns
    And I’ll bet he sleeps at night

    And I
    And I can’t stop shaking
    My hands won’t stop shaking
    My arms won’t stop shaking
    My mind won’t stop shaking
    I want to go home
    Please let me go home
    Go home…

    And I have seen a friend of mine
    Hang on the wire
    Like some rag toy
    Then in the heat the flies come down
    And cover up the boy
    And the flies come down in
    Gommecourt, Thiepval,
    Mametz Wood, and French Verdun
    If the preacher he could see those flies
    Wouldn’t preach for the sound of guns

    And I
    And I can’t stop shaking
    My hands won’t stop shaking
    My arms won’t stop shaking
    My mind won’t stop shaking
    I want to go home
    Please let

  2. Well, I put my flag out today, and I devoted a time for remembrance, especially for the 4,000 plus who were killed in Iraq as a result of Bush’s heroic effort to safeguard freedom for all mankind. They died for my freedom. I’m not exactly clear how their deaths translates into my freedom.. But I know I’m freer thanks to the courageous George W Bush.

    • But I know I’m freer thanks to the courageous George W Bush.

      If “free” is a synonym for “screwed,” then you’re right.

  3. One song that has always made me tear up is Momma, Look Sharp from 1776.

    Courier:
    Momma, hey momma, come lookin’ for me
    I’m here in the meadow by the red maple tree
    Momma, hey momma, look sharp, here I be
    Hey, hey, momma look sharp

    Them soldiers, they fired. Oh ma, did we run
    But then we turned round and the battle begun
    Then I went under, oh ma, am I done?
    Hey, hey, momma look sharp

    My eyes are wide open, my face to the sky
    Is that you I’m hearin’ in the tall grass nearby?
    Momma come find me before I do die
    Hey, hey, momma look sharp

    All:
    I’ll close your eyes, my Billy
    Them eyes that cannot see
    And I’ll bury you, my Billy
    Beneath the maple tree

    Courier:
    And never again will you whisper to me
    Hey, hey, momma look sharp

  5. erinyes,
    Yes, Republicans in Congress continue to drastically underfund the VA.

    Oh, but didn’t the troops look GREAT, marching off to “Bush’s Follies?”

    And whodathunkit that the same gang that sent in the troops with inadequate gear, like helmets that rattled brains, instead of protected them, and vehicles that were under-protected, would do everything they can to screw the very Veterans they created, when they finally return from waging completely unnecessary wars and occupations?

    No one could have seen that coming!
    ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!

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