One Tin Soldier – Flashbacks of Childhood
Remembering the 1960s
Good Morning, All, Happy Sunday! <3
I woke up with this song in my head/heart. For those who haven’t lived as many years as I have, it originally came on the scene when I was a child and was later linked to the movie, The Legend of Billy Jack. The song, One Tin Soldier.
The video below hasn’t been out as long and it really brings home the song’s message, and apparently childhood memories not suitable for any child.
Memories of Vietnam and the Evening News
For those of us who remember the Vietnam War, even after more than forty years it still makes me physically ill.
Warning, the rest of this post may bring back memories of Vietnam.
I was only a child when they started showing the Vietnam War on our television screens daily. No, not the reports and commentary, but the actual footage of the war itself. I remember it being so real, so loud, and above all, frightening to an impressionable child.
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2018/01/25/vietnam-the-first-television-war/
Meanwhile, across the seas, our boys, most involuntarily drafted into giving their lives to fight in a place most Americans had never heard of, Vietnam, were fighting and dying for our country, for us. The history books make it so factual and easy to swallow, for those who lived it and watched it, it was
anything but.
Warning: More footage of the Vietnam War, I remember seeing much of this on the evening news. https://www.military.com/…/vietnam-war…/3620986998001
And, this…can you imagine the conflicting thoughts of a child or anyone else, here at home, over this war? And then, our boys, and the women, nurses and other support personnel, after all they’d been through, coming home and being misunderstood oftentimes, hated, for serving our country, giving their lives for us… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ggRGlfljs
Finally, one last post..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89_3DgW_7mg, If you don’t watch any of the others, you might consider watching this…