tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post241649759576833517..comments2024-03-29T07:49:20.875-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Memorial Day 2014Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-60489136631720944002021-05-31T14:42:13.583-05:002021-05-31T14:42:13.583-05:00Lyrics
Oh how do you do, young Willie McBride
Do y...Lyrics<br />Oh how do you do, young Willie McBride<br />Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?<br />And rest for a while in the warm summer sun<br />I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done<br />And I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen<br />When you joined the great fallen in 1916<br />Well, I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean<br />Oh Willie McBride, was is it slow and obscene?<br />Did they beat the drums slowly?<br />Did they play the fife lowly?<br />Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?<br />Did the band play the last post and chorus?<br />Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?<br />And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind<br />In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?<br />And though you died back in 1916<br />To that loyal heart you're forever nineteen<br />Or are you a stranger without even a name?<br />Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane<br />In an old photograph torn, tattered, and stained<br />And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame<br />Did they beat the drums slowly?<br />Did they play the fife lowly?<br />Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?<br />Did the band play the last post and chorus?<br />Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?<br />The sun shining down on these green fields of France<br />The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance<br />The trenches have vanished long under the plow<br />No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now<br />But here in this graveyard that's still no man's land<br />The countless white crosses in mute witness stand<br />To man's blind indifference to his fellow man<br />And a whole generation were butchered and damned<br />Did they beat the drums slowly?<br />Did they play the fife lowly?<br />Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?<br />Did the band play the last post and chorus?<br />Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?<br />And I can't help but wonder, oh Willie McBride<br />Do all those who lie here know why they died?<br />Did you really believe them when they told you the cause?<br />Did you really believe that this war would end wars?<br />Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame<br />The killing and dying it was all done in vain<br />Oh Willie McBride, it all happened again<br />And again, and again, and again, and again<br />Did they beat the drums slowly?<br />Did they play the fife lowly?<br />Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?<br />Did the band play the last post and chorus?<br />Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?<br />Source: Musixmatch<br />Songwriters: Bogle Eric<br />The Green Fields of France (No Man's Land) lyrics © Eleven East Corporation, Happy As Larry Music Publ. Pty. Ltd., Larrikin Music Publishing Pty LtdJohn Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02712600193130373091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-33080021677456856742021-05-31T09:53:20.363-05:002021-05-31T09:53:20.363-05:00It was on Bush and his ilk. I volunteered to serve...It was on Bush and his ilk. I volunteered to serve my country. Not the fascists who run it. KRIEGARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08588139158820769954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-36477035092399838352018-05-28T06:49:49.251-05:002018-05-28T06:49:49.251-05:00Yes, the Flanders Field poem of WWI is sad indeed....Yes, the Flanders Field poem of WWI is sad indeed.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-71096253948643162812018-05-26T14:31:19.719-05:002018-05-26T14:31:19.719-05:00"They each had goals, each had lives to live,..."They each had goals, each had lives to live, loved ones who thought about them, personalities that were unique."<br /><br /> We are the Dead. Short days ago<br /> We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<br /> Loved and were loved, and now we lie<br /> In Flanders fields.<br /><br />--John McCrae, soldier, doctor, poet <br />[May, 1915] Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-41745258820258595002017-05-26T14:34:25.813-05:002017-05-26T14:34:25.813-05:00All wars are debatable. That the family, friends, ...All wars are debatable. That the family, friends, loved ones, neighbors, communities have lost an intrgal part of their heart and future is not. Nearly a million times over. In just this country. And soldiers swear to uphold their country and their government. Regardless of their political thoughts of the objective. They. Do. Their. Duty. They are you. At war.okiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05414998405758030304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-10974541765043437742017-05-26T08:16:27.357-05:002017-05-26T08:16:27.357-05:00Anon at 8:33 is an ass. Forgets the bad govts loca...Anon at 8:33 is an ass. Forgets the bad govts locally that put the people in harms way. Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-75280660721045589142014-05-26T23:19:11.263-05:002014-05-26T23:19:11.263-05:00I'm not saying that I don't respect the tr...I'm not saying that I don't respect the troops or their sacrifices.<br />I'm saying their sacrifices were for nothing but the insanity of George W. Bush!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13978194163495589398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-39348906402095392862014-05-26T20:10:55.615-05:002014-05-26T20:10:55.615-05:00Just a friendly reminder, federal law says on Memo...Just a friendly reminder, federal law says on Memorial Day, the flag is to displayed at half-staff from sunrise until noon and at full staff from noon to sunset -- for anyone reading this in American Samoa.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-50593931226934155962014-05-26T12:18:39.340-05:002014-05-26T12:18:39.340-05:00I know the historical facts, Becca, but you're...I know the historical facts, Becca, but you're missing the point. Their sacrifice isn't lessened because it was a bogus war. A person with a heart, who isn't just disgorging political cant, recognizes that. If you choose not to be that person, well, the loss is yours. But don't pretend that it's persuasive, or that people who respect the troops and their families are doing so out of ignorance. Because it isn't, and they aren't.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-88763501890801098352014-05-26T10:32:00.141-05:002014-05-26T10:32:00.141-05:00No, Neil, we didn't ask them to go there.
Bush...No, Neil, we didn't ask them to go there.<br />Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld made up faked intelligence reports that Iraq was building WMDs & they got Congress to believe that crap, because they set up & sent up Colin Powell with those lies.<br />Not one American that died in Iraq died to protect us as there wasn't anything to protect us from over there.<br /><br />While there was a terrorist problem in Afghanistan, our special forces were doing an excellent job of removing them, until Bush wrecked that operation by invading Iraq.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13978194163495589398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-46875524554064191532014-05-26T10:07:43.229-05:002014-05-26T10:07:43.229-05:00No, they died because we asked them to. It's c...No, they died because we asked them to. It's convenient to blame George Bush, but the American people elected him, twice (well, the second election he stole, but again, we let him). I never voted for Bush, but it's too easy to off-load responsibility onto him. And that doesn't diminish from what the soldiers died trying to protect -- us. If a fireman died racing to a false alarm he's just as dead, the duty just as important, whether there was really a fire or not. You don't pooh-pooh the fireman on the day set aside to honor him. Well, Becca, I guess some people do, but it's the sort of gripe that blows back more on the griper than on the object being griped about. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-13434422901027289762014-05-26T09:31:22.597-05:002014-05-26T09:31:22.597-05:003,527 Americans died for the glory of George W. Bu...3,527 Americans died for the glory of George W. Bush.<br />Another 2,175 have died in Afghanistan, Asia's shithole, which we will soon leave & will go back to Taliban control with lots of terrorist training camps.<br />So they died for nothing & this country is trillions in debt because of this.<br />Remind me why he hasn't had war crimes trial?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13978194163495589398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-13637399772371221172014-05-26T09:07:16.851-05:002014-05-26T09:07:16.851-05:00What about them? Perhaps you could foment for a ho...What about them? Perhaps you could foment for a holiday to honor them--we could call it Run Down America Day...but that would hard to bring about anonymously, wouldn't it? The US has done many bad things, but that doesn't make it exceptional in this world, does it? Well, to those so predisposed I guess...Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-59908628718041222372014-05-26T08:33:34.580-05:002014-05-26T08:33:34.580-05:00How about the3 deaths of all the hundreds of thous...How about the3 deaths of all the hundreds of thousands of Iraquis at the hands of the U.S. military?<br />Including the 500,000 Iraqui children who died as a result of the cruel economic sanctions during the Clinton years. Or the 2 million Vietnamese who died... or those murdered by far right wing Obama's drones?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com