BS: Fifty years ago today (7 May 04)

Subject: BS: Sixty years ago today (7. 5. 04)
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 May 04 - 08:23 AM

7. 5. 1954: End of the battle of Dien Bien Phu

Before you could draw peaceful breath more death was raining from he skies,
the French came, and for nine more years your land they overran;
but the enemy could not subdue.
They broke at Dien Bien Phu -
and their dead lay all around them in the fields of Vietnam. (McColl, Fields of Vietnam)

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Sixty years ago today (7. 5. 04)
From: GUEST
Date: 07 May 04 - 08:29 AM

Would this by Ewan McColl?

Subject: RE: BS: Sixty years ago today (7. 5. 04)
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 May 04 - 08:37 AM

Yes, as clearly stated in my post (including song title).

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Sixty years ago today (7. 5. 04)
From: Hrothgar
Date: 07 May 04 - 08:39 AM

The arithmetic is not quite as clear.

Subject: RE: BS: Sixty years ago today (7. 5. 04)
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 May 04 - 08:40 AM

Isn't that fifty years ago today? Or is my math bad?

Doesn't really matter. Dien Bien Phu was the end for the French and beginning for the Americans. In both cases a mistake.

Subject: RE: BS: Fifty years ago today (7. 5. 04)
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 May 04 - 08:44 AM

Thanks for the correction (would be nice if the thread title could be corrected).

Wolfgang (skundered)

[changed in title- JoeClone]

Subject: RE: BS: Sixty years ago today (7. 5. 04)
From: GUEST
Date: 07 May 04 - 08:49 AM

Do you not think it is in bad taste to commemerate an important battle with the lyrics of a man who deserted from the British Army during the second world war?

Subject: RE: BS: Sixty years ago today (7. 5. 04)
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 May 04 - 08:53 AM

GUEST, what does that have to do with the quality of his lyrics?

Subject: RE: BS: Sixty years ago today (7. 5. 04)
From: Amos
Date: 07 May 04 - 10:03 AM

Some poeple find bad taste everywhere. It's kinda like the blonde who told the doctor she hurt all over -- if she touched her knee it hurt, and if she touched her shoulder, it hurt, and if she touched her head, it hurt; the doctor explained she had sprained her finger.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Fifty years ago today (7 May 04)
From: GUEST
Date: 07 May 04 - 04:01 PM

well, 61 years ago today I was born!

Subject: RE: BS: Fifty years ago today (7 May 04)
From: Little Robyn
Date: 07 May 04 - 05:48 PM

Happy Birthday, GUEST!