The song about Colin Kelly started like this: There's a star-spngled banner waving somewhere In a distant land of heroes brave and true Only God's great heroes get to go there That is where I want to go when I die. I don't remember any more of it, but oh, I loved that song when I was small. Now I have to sing a verse or two of The Band Played Waltzing Matilda to get it out of my head. (Did anyone hear Garrison Keillor do a version of it, The Band Played the Star-Spnagled Banner? Another one that has been mentioned was Rodger Young (I think it was spelled with the d). I remember part of a verse of that, and I remember singing it in an assembly when I was in the 3rd or 4th grade. On the island of New Georgia in the Solomons Stands a simple wooden cross alone to tell... and a line about "grenades against machine guns in the gloom." At least as many of these as there are the anti-war songs. And are there songs that are specifically pro-peace more than anti-war?
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