as a 51 year old german i first of all want to thank you all.
I could hardly understand the text when listening to the music. That was getting much better when reading (thanks for) the lyrics. Your comments (thanks) made me even better understand the contents of the song (which is still not forgotten).
Nowadays a movie can be found on Internet and i want to add these informations.
In a concert the singer Kevin Cronin introduces the song with these words:
well i never forget
we wrote this song back when we were living on campus down at the university of illinois in champaign and
i remeber the day i had the television on as i watched
that last marine helicopter as it lifted of over saigon
and that was pretty much the end of the vietnam war
and if i remember thinking to myself back then that this is it
this war we have lost over 50000 young men and women
100000s of young men and women were injured
there is people living on the streets today
who have faught in vietnam and do not have a home to live in
and i remember thinking that war is over men
we have proven that war does not work
so
here we are
in the 21st century
we got soldiers
brave young men and women over the seas
fighting for our freedom so that we can be here tonight rockin and rollin
god love everyone of em
so we sing this song tonight with the hope that war will end when this one* is over
and that all our brothers and sisters will come back alive
and we can get down to the business for taking care of the problems right here at home and turn ours own country back into the golden country ...
Gentle Ladies and Sirs,
as a 51 year old german i first of all want to thank you all. I could hardly understand the text when listening to the music. That was getting much better when reading (thanks for) the lyrics. Your comments (thanks) made me even better understand the contents of the song (which is still not forgotten). Nowadays a movie can be found on Internet and i want to add these informations.
In a concert the singer Kevin Cronin introduces the song with these words:
well i never forget we wrote this song back when we were living on campus down at the university of illinois in champaign and i remeber the day i had the television on as i watched that last marine helicopter as it lifted of over saigon and that was pretty much the end of the vietnam war and if i remember thinking to myself back then that this is it this war we have lost over 50000 young men and women 100000s of young men and women were injured there is people living on the streets today who have faught in vietnam and do not have a home to live in and i remember thinking that war is over men we have proven that war does not work so here we are in the 21st century we got soldiers brave young men and women over the seas fighting for our freedom so that we can be here tonight rockin and rollin god love everyone of em so we sing this song tonight with the hope that war will end when this one* is over and that all our brothers and sisters will come back alive and we can get down to the business for taking care of the problems right here at home and turn ours own country back into the golden country ...
(followed by the song)
https://youtu.be/0HIYPQP6ekk
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