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Thread #28288 Message #4176475
Posted By: Jack Horntip
09-Jul-23 - 07:08 PM
Thread Name: Origin of 'Napalm Sticks to Kids.'
Subject: RE: Origin of 'Napalm Sticks to Kids.'
OUR NAPALM BOMBING
Mr. YOUNG of Ohio. Mr. President, in Vietname a popular song blaring from tape recorders in GI hooches or sung by helicopter pilots goes something like this:
Napalm sticks to kids, napalm sticks to kids, When'll those gooks ever learn? We shoot the sick, the young, the lame, We do our best to kill and maim. Because the "kills" all count the same, Napalm sticks to kids.
In a Saigon officer's club, with officers entertaining their Vietnam gal guests the GI orchestra did not play this popular song. Also it is a good bet marines in our Embassy at Sagon do not customarily sing "Napalm Sticks to Kids" at least unless Ambassador Bunker's away. Another of the many verses is:
Blues (helicopter gunships) out on a road[?] recon. See some children with their mom What the hell, let's drop the bomb, Napalm sticks to kids.
A helicopter pilot with acess to a typewriter made mimeographed stencil copies of the song. He wanted the song printed. Those officers in charge of headquarter mimeograph machine refused permission saying, "that's not official business."