"I find myself much agreeing with guest AC."
Me too
I managed to take time out to listen to Stone's load of schmaltz - truly dreadful - it totally sanitizes the war and the fate of the people who died - which appears to be the whole object of the 'Remembrance industry', certainly if this is how they have chosen to remember those who died.
Bogle's song - "only a song" - not really - not unless you regard, say, 'Guernica' or those magnificent Goya 'Disasters of War' paintings as "only pictures".
It is his take on the war - totally neutralised by that insulting interpretation.
"Petty - trivial" not really P.F.R. - that war is seen as it really is, without dressing it in pretty, long frocks and making it sound 'sweet', is fairly important
That's what I call is pissing on the memory of those who died.
The war wasn't "sad" - it was a massive crime against humanity - the first of a whole string of them committed in global proportions
Jim Carroll