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We drank heavily without regard for tomorrow. It ended up that everyone went to the club every night. This unfairly put an additional load on those not wanting to drink. Although these should have been routine pickups in the morning, and only Urgent or Priority calls for pickup made, pilots didn’t mind, because we realized it affected the morale of the living, and the ability of the unit to move freely, and especially because we felt kinship for each Marine. Many of these involved picking up the dead.
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Pilots who didn’t drink, or were trying to write a quiet letter to a loved one, would find the Duty Officer in their face for emergency night medevacs. You learned that if you didn’t want all the night Medevacs, every night, you had to go to the club and drink. This is a poem about going from drinking, singing, and partying to pre-flighting your medevac bird under red flashlights, and flying as a single bird to a tacan radius/distance from Landshark Alpha, then turning off external lights, keeping the glowing radial-engine exhaust stack turned away from the enemy, letting down on radar altimeter with the crew chief and gunner hanging out and calling trees and obstacles.īack at Ky Ha base at night, you learned not to stay in your hooch, writing letters home. It ended up that everyone cane to the club and drank…and yet the Duty Officer followed. You soon learned if you stayed in your hooch, and wrote letters home at night, the Duty Officer would find you (sober) for all the night medevacs. I was a pilot with HMM-362, “The Ugly Angels”. The whole room would stop and sung as a group. “Snoopy and the Red Barin” and “Woolly Bully” were sung at Ky Ha (Chu Lai) Marine helo pilots O’club hooch in 1966-67. I do have a copy of “In Country.” I frequently include it on my radio show on Memorial Day and/or Veterans’ Day.
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Most of the songs on your list are the ones I know from commercial radio the ones I know are from folk radio and from the folk music festivals I attended. While he was in Vietnam, my husband wrote two songs, one called “Boots of Canvas and Leather,” the other called “The Four Beer Blues.” Neither has been recorded. Though it isn’t really war, we’re sending 50,000 more to help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese…” (It’s kind of like “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy” in many ways. Tom Paxton wrote “Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation”: “Lyndon Johnson told the nation, have no fear of escalation, I am trying everyone to please. Michael Jerling, a singer/songwriter from Saratoga Springs, New York, wrote a touching song called “Long Black Wall” (bring Kleenex if you Google it), with these lyrics in the chorus: “Long black wall, shining in the sun…long black wall, nothing is undone…” Joel Mabus of Michigan also wrote a song about the wall called “Touch a Name on the Wall,” which is also quite moving. One of my favorites is “Will There Be a Tomorrow?” by a pilot who’s taking off on a mission, and he wonders if he’ll ever come back. Called “In Country,” it’s out of print now, but it contains some really beautiful, insightful songs by men who were there. Thank you in advance!įlying Fish records released an entire CD of songs written by veterans about their experiences. I ‘ve also created a poll to help identify my website audience – before leaving, can you please click HERE and choose the one item that best describes you. If you want to learn more about the Vietnam War and its Warriors, then subscribe to this blog and get notified by email or your feed reader every time a new story, picture, video or changes occur on this website – the button is located at the top right of this page. Should you have a question or comment about this article, then scroll down to the comment section below to leave your response. Thank you for taking the time to read this. This article originally appeared on the VVMF website on May 9, 2017. The first illustrates examples of the changes in music during the era, and the second are actual videos of the top patriotic songs during the war.Ĭan you think of songs that were not included on this list that mimicked public opinion at the time? Please list them in the comment section.
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I published two earlier articles about music during the Vietnam War.