Say there old man, why you so deep in thought?
Well, Ida Red I’m thinking about the past. Way back past. Mostly about music and movies and wars. There was a time when the popular music of
the time supported our efforts and men that were fighting in some places that
most of us couldn’t even pronounce. Looking at the lyrics of some of these
songs sure define the difference between then and now. The tune “Smoke on the Water” actually
referred to the enemy as heathens. Look at these lines:
There'll be
smoke on the water, on the land and the sea
When our
army and navy overtakes the enemy
There'll be
smoke on the mountains where the heathen gods stay
And the sun
that is risin' will go down on that day
Other Lines spelled out exactly what most of us were thinking:
Hirohito, 'long with Hitler, will be ridin' on a rail
Mussolini'll beg for mercy; as a leader he has failed
There'll be no time for pity when the screamin' eagles flies
It will be the end of Axis, they must answer with their lives
For there is a great destroyer made of fire and flesh and steel
Rollin' towards the foes of freedom; they'll go down beneath its
wheels
There'll be nothin' left but vultures to inhabit all that land
When our modern ships and bombers make a graveyard of Japan
Fast forward to today and we have a president apologizing because
some Marines pissed on their kill and some clean up people burned a few
books. Where in the hell did we go
wrong?
Back then even Hollyweired made patriotic movies:
Dive Bomber (1941), A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941), Wake Island
(1942), Guadalcanal Diary (1943), Bataan (1943), Winged
Victory (1944), Objective, Burma! (1945), Sergeant York (1941), Thirty
Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Now what we get from the left coast is just crap and
trashing the troops at every opportunity.
Damn, I think I’ll go listen to some Glenn Miller for
awhile.
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