Most likely, it is about the army taking "clean cut" kids and messing them up psychologically by making them into killers.
During the Vietnam War / My Lai Massacre, when Seymour Hersh was interviewing the mother of Paul Meadlo (one of the participants in the massacre), his mother said, “I sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer.”
The lyrics mention, "They sent him to a napalm health spa", or "A jeep to drive, blood to spill", and the grief of the parents: " His mama walks the floor, his daddy weeps and moans".
Most likely, it is about the army taking "clean cut" kids and messing them up psychologically by making them into killers.
During the Vietnam War / My Lai Massacre, when Seymour Hersh was interviewing the mother of Paul Meadlo (one of the participants in the massacre), his mother said, “I sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer.”
The lyrics mention, "They sent him to a napalm health spa", or "A jeep to drive, blood to spill", and the grief of the parents: " His mama walks the floor, his daddy weeps and moans".