Anti-War

[daveamongus]

Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" occupies a place of odd duality in mind. On the one hand, my first memory of the song was in an episode of The Muppet Show, where the anti-war theme was reinterpreted to come from a fuzzy woodland creature, warning other woodland creatures to beware of the hunters marauding through the woods. The other

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Dixie Chicks songs and other cultural artifacts

[p_o_u_n_c_e_r]

It's a different time altogether. Except that it's not.

The Dixie Chicks give us "Travelin' Solider" but it's really about feeling and caring ... and Viet Nam.

So the letters came from an army camp
In California then Vietnam
And he told her of his heart
It might be love and all of the things he was so scared of

One Friday night at a football game
The Lord's Prayer said and the Anthem sang
A man said folks would you bow your heads
For a list of local Vietnam dead
Crying all alone under the stands
Was a piccolo player in the marching band
And one name read and nobody really cared
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair

And then we got "Private Malone" with the ghost of a kid killed ridin' along with the new owner of an old car ...

I was just out of the service thumbing through the classifieds

[merriehaskell]

Weird, but I have the same Muppet Show images from "For What It's Worth". I couldn't have been more than 5 when that came out, so you must have been a toddler. Or, you saw it in rerun...