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Thread #17791 Message #1906251
Posted By: Rapparee
11-Dec-06 - 08:48 AM
Thread Name: Songs About Vietnam War Part II
Subject: RE: Songs About Vietnam Part II
Yes, I've been to The Wall.
And Muttley -- a good song touches chords as long as its sung. Wilfred Owen's poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" is also about WW1 but it speaks quite eloquently to Iraq veterans I know as well as it did when it was published.
If you can get 'Nam vets to talk, as them if they think that Vietnam Veterans were screwed by the government and the American people as a whole -- if "they turned all their faces away."
But this is about music, not politics. I'll ask my brother, who speaks North Vietnamese, if he knows any songs from the Vietnamese point of view.