Hello my friends,

I'm sorry to have to accuse you all of over-analyzing this song. I remember the feelings it brought and brings to me, and the tears it brought and brings to my eyes. Not an anti-war song?? Thousands of our beautiful young men went to graveyards everyone. "When will they ever learn" with a kind of sentimental shrug. No Peter, that is a sad, sad pain. Only the kind that can be shown when there is no hope.

I only personally knew a couple of beautiful men who died, and I only knew a couple of people who lost brothers, or sons to that war. This song made each and every one of the soldiers that died personal to me.

I cannot hear the phrase "Where have all the flowers gone" without tears rising up. Even now.

Love, annap