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Nuclear thanksgiving hymn suggestions

10 Apr 19 - 10:04 AM (#3986752)
Subject: Nuclear thanksgiving hymn suggestions
From: Jack Campin

Can somebody think of some appropriate hymns for this?

service of thanksgiving for the Bomb


10 Apr 19 - 10:33 AM (#3986755)
Subject: RE: Nuclear thanksgiving hymn suggestions
From: G-Force

The cold war was more of a cold peace. The bomb had a lot to do with that. So I for one am OK with it.


10 Apr 19 - 02:53 PM (#3986794)
Subject: RE: Nuclear thanksgiving hymn suggestions
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch

YT: Albert King


10 Apr 19 - 05:14 PM (#3986801)
Subject: RE: Nuclear thanksgiving hymn suggestions
From: Jeri

We Will All Go Together When We Go


12 Apr 19 - 01:53 AM (#3986984)
Subject: RE: Nuclear thanksgiving hymn suggestions
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch

Recent slightly off-topic Reddit exchange:

Fun V-weapon fact - it cost the Nazis more to develop the V1 and V2 rockets than it cost the Americans to run the Manhatten project to produce nuclear weapons.

        No need for precision guidance with nukes.

                Nukes have always been a “To whom it may concern” kind of weapon.

                        Fat Man specifically was an "As per my last email" weapon.

                                Reply All:

                                        FW: Re: Re: Re: Pearl Harbor


12 Apr 19 - 05:57 AM (#3987023)
Subject: RE: Nuclear thanksgiving hymn suggestions
From: John C. Bunnell

Surely one of the obvious picks is
The Merry Minuet (written by Sheldon Harnick, recorded by the Kingston Trio).


12 Apr 19 - 10:42 AM (#3987068)
Subject: RE: Nuclear thanksgiving hymn suggestions
From: oldhippie

"The Last War" by Danny Howe


12 Apr 19 - 10:48 AM (#3987069)
Subject: RE: Nuclear thanksgiving hymn suggestions
From: oldhippie

lyrics for the above here: https://mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=2098124


13 Apr 19 - 03:01 AM (#3987162)
Subject: RE: Nuclear thanksgiving hymn suggestions
From: BobL

The service is, I understand, to commemorate 50 years of peace and the Royal Navy's role in helping to maintain it. The presence of nuclear weapons may also have had something to do with it. However, to describe the service as a "thanksgiving for the bomb" is the sort of journalistic distortion we would expect from the likes of [insert newspaper of your choice here].

But to answer the OP, Chesterton's hymn "O God of earth and altar" would seem to be still as appropriate as ever.


13 Apr 19 - 03:35 AM (#3987167)
Subject: RE: Nuclear thanksgiving hymn suggestions
From: John C. Bunnell

[eyes original link more closely]

Ah; I see I didn't entirely appreciate the context on the first pass, and that the Minuet may be better assigned to the protestors than to the service proper.


13 Apr 19 - 04:01 AM (#3987171)
Subject: RE: Nuclear thanksgiving hymn suggestions
From: David Carter (UK)

Its not a hymn, but it was written by someone perhaps best known as a hymnwriter, The Crow on the Cradle.