Brant Gaede Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 if you want close your eyes and do your own visualshttps://youtu.be/7rkgm1yGgbMhttps://youtu.be/xAWRKjEZ-j4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 Vietnamhttps://youtu.be/InRDF_0lfHkA little more modernhttps://youtu.be/sHQ_aTjXObs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted August 13, 2015 Author Share Posted August 13, 2015 This is so perfect and so right.--Branthttps://youtu.be/iGaF4tKUl0o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turkeyfoot Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Like it as much today as when I first heard it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrakusos Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 I reject and rebuke my generation. When I am in a grocery store and they play The Doors, I leave. Sure, the first two albums were innovative, but then what? I celebrate the Eighties.Blondie on the Muppet Show here.Patty Smyth and Scandal Good-bye to YouTrain: "Drops of Jupiter in Her Hair" (here) [A special song for me, an unrequited crush on a much younger woman in my graduate geography class in 2010... You gotta suffer if you want to live...]But I do honor and respect the past, those days when I was young because it is true, the rooms were colder and my father was a soldier and times were hard...That said, as we live, we grow, and as we grow, we change. The core must remain, but the socially active component acquires new expressions. You never know what will resonate with you as you acquire new skills, new abilities, and take on new challenges.Each of us in the Texas State Guard is prepared to support ourselves for 72 hours when deployed. (The National Guard needs seven days to be deployed.) So, I went to buy a rain pancho at a local "army/navy store" and there ahead of me, were three Mexicans, in their 20s, buying camos and other gear. Clearly, these were boys that my own would meet on the border later. I never went back to that store. I understand the "Ferengi Rules of Acquisition" and in the fact that it is profitable to supply both sides in a war -- except when one of those side is my own.Sometimes, it is just complicated and you have to wonder what an Objectivist could see in East Germany.But mostly, the memories remain crystal clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted August 14, 2015 Author Share Posted August 14, 2015 Thanks. I like how one video leads to another if they are linked, not embedded.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikee Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 The prez wants to play too: spotify#1: "Ain't too proud to beg" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Jacob Biodrowski Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Posted this in my thread. I think it deserves a quick repost. Rooster Ain't found a way to kill me yetEyes Burn with stinging sweatSeems every path leads me to nowhereWife and kids household petArmy green was no safe betThe bullets scream at me from somewhere Here they come to snuff the roosterYeah here come the rooster, yeah [2x]You know he ain't gonna dieNo, no, no, ya know he ain't gonna die Walkin' tall machine gun man They spit on me in my home landGloria sent me pictures of my boyGot my pills 'gainst mosquito deathMy buddy's breathin' his dyin' breathOh god please won't you help me make it through Here they come to snuff the roosterYeah here come the rooster, yeahYou know he ain't gonna dieNo, no, no ya know he ain't gonna die A bit of background, the "rooster" in the song is Jerry Cantrell's [Alice in Chain's guitarist's] father who served in Vietnam. His nickname was "rooster" during the war. He is seen in the video with his son, both reflect on the war and the time they spent together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted August 18, 2015 Author Share Posted August 18, 2015 Not bad of The Deer Hunter influenced. Neither that movie nor Apocalypse Now were about the Vietnam War except for literalists. Not many good movies, except Good Morning Vietnam and maybe a minor flick, title forgotten (The Boys In Company C?) and We Were Soldiers I know of about that war. Some very bad movies were made, from John Wayne's The Green Berets (but hooray for our side!) on the right--I guess the only one from there--to a real piece of crap staring Michael J. Fox about an American patrol taking along a young Vietnamese girl as a rape object raped and murdered.Of course there were atrocities. My Lei being the archetypical example. Not supposed to have happened. The Viet Cong were putting Montagnard babies up on sticks as early as 1960. They deserved to be hunted down, shot and killed. Most of them were. While I have to put the North Vietnamese soldier into a different category, I have little good knowledge of what its combat policy in the field toward civilians was. There's some reading I've not sought out.That war was a gigantic cluster fuck. Even North Vietnam hardly knew what it was doing and how to best get what it wanted. It used the Red Chinese model sanctioned by Mao himself. That was in response to the American intervention of 1965. Using up as many soldiers you had to/have to is communist military strategy conceit. They got used up all right. About a million--just the NVA.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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