When I was a kid, the antiwar movement had a parody version of the Ballad of the Green Berets. I can only remember one little bit of it, but you'll get the idea.
"Fighting soldiers in the East These are men against the Slavic Beast These are men, the Fuhrer's best The brave men of the SS"
Onward Christian soldiers, duty way is plain Slay your Christian neighbors, or by them be slain Pulpiteers are spouting, effervescent swill God above is calling you, to rob and rape and kill All your acts are sanctified by the lamb on high If you love the holy ghost, go murder pray and die
Forward U.S. soldiers, duty way is plain That's why you go to Vie4tnam, to do it all again Like the My-Lai massacre, that's where you did your part That's the way to do it, you earnt your purple heart And now the war is over you joined the national guard The workers are on strike, you can make a brand new start
(Rondos from their 1980 album Red Attack)
Not a big fan of the army myself, any army, I think it's all madness and always civilians paying the price. The U.S. spends around a trillion dollars on it's military every year, MADNESS, Indonesia has been buying weaponry for billions and billions (which is why, I think, SBY was knighted in England last weekend) they're even buying loads of tanks, sheer madness, where would you deploy these tanks in Indonesia? Well, I can think why they're buying these tanks and against whom they would be deployed but this blog is not the place to do so....
And I'm saying this as the grandson of one of the Black Devils from Rotterdam (the elite mariners who fought off the Nazi invaders for three days at the Maas Bridge, only eight of them survived that gruesome fight)....
My grandfather, who was a soldier in Indonesia from 1936 till 1940, and who spend 5 terrible years in prison camps in Germany was a professional mariner for 35 years. He hated war having been in it, never wanted to talk much about what happened at that bridge and when they bombed the ship he was on (the Van Galen) all he would say was that war was a terrible thing, that killing people is a terrible thing (it was man to man fighting on that bridge often with knives)....
"general weirdness", good one.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, the antiwar movement had a parody version of the Ballad of the Green Berets. I can only remember one little bit of it, but you'll get the idea.
ReplyDelete"Fighting soldiers in the East
These are men against the Slavic Beast
These are men, the Fuhrer's best
The brave men of the SS"
Cheers!
Onward Christian soldiers, duty way is plain
ReplyDeleteSlay your Christian neighbors, or by them be slain
Pulpiteers are spouting, effervescent swill
God above is calling you, to rob and rape and kill
All your acts are sanctified by the lamb on high
If you love the holy ghost, go murder pray and die
Forward U.S. soldiers, duty way is plain
That's why you go to Vie4tnam, to do it all again
Like the My-Lai massacre, that's where you did your part
That's the way to do it, you earnt your purple heart
And now the war is over you joined the national guard
The workers are on strike, you can make a brand new start
(Rondos from their 1980 album Red Attack)
Not a big fan of the army myself, any army, I think it's all madness and always civilians paying the price. The U.S. spends around a trillion dollars on it's military every year, MADNESS, Indonesia has been buying weaponry for billions and billions (which is why, I think, SBY was knighted in England last weekend) they're even buying loads of tanks, sheer madness, where would you deploy these tanks in Indonesia? Well, I can think why they're buying these tanks and against whom they would be deployed but this blog is not the place to do so....
And I'm saying this as the grandson of one of the Black Devils from Rotterdam (the elite mariners who fought off the Nazi invaders for three days at the Maas Bridge, only eight of them survived that gruesome fight)....
My grandfather, who was a soldier in Indonesia from 1936 till 1940, and who spend 5 terrible years in prison camps in Germany was a professional mariner for 35 years. He hated war having been in it, never wanted to talk much about what happened at that bridge and when they bombed the ship he was on (the Van Galen) all he would say was that war was a terrible thing, that killing people is a terrible thing (it was man to man fighting on that bridge often with knives)....