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Thread #18034   Message #180766
Posted By: freight train
18-Feb-00 - 12:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Fields of Vietnam (MacColl)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Fields of Vietnam
Hi folks, being a vet I can honestly say that it has taken years to put the Vietnam incident behind me and begin living a better life. We went and did what we were told many of us without thinking of the repercussions. Luckily I can home to be treated like a leper. Now I have respect for those who protested and I can feel for those that were injured to killed in the process as in the Kent state incident. We all have to put the bad times behind us and help each other in the healing process. Music cannot be censored. I don't care for the wording in the song and being a folk singer don't think I will ever perform it but only out of personal reasons and not just what the words try and say. To all the vets out there that read this if they didn't say it then, then its never to late, Welcome Home.