"Morningtown Ride" is the only memory of Viet Nam that doesn't, to this day, cause me go become totally depressed . Every morning at day break Armed Forces Radio Viet Nam played "Morningtown Ride". It was our wake up call. I asked one of the AFVN DJ's why they played that song every moring. He said it was just "sort of a tradition" that was passed down from one DJ to the next over the years. It's funny what I remember about those "bad old days".