Smokescreen
Dec 1, 2009 ramblings
I’ve never had a bent toward protest songs. That’s certainly not to say we don’t have lots of material for great protest song fodder, and I do have some VERY strong opinions about what’s happening in our country today. So when I got an email about a veteran who is turning 95 in a couple of weeks, a man with some very similar perspectives as I do, I felt compelled to use that content in a song.
Now, I did research the letter that was in the email, and it appears to be genuine. Though some dispute its authenticity and the content is widely and vehemently dissed by those with opposing views, oh well.
All I’ll say is I think our country is reeling, essentially being dismembered from its roots — but I don’t know that folks truly understand what’s going on. It could be they don’t want to take the time to do so, God help us, it could be they just don’t care. Maybe it’s all the social and political agendas we have to decipher or because we’re moving so fast in our daily self-indulgent lives; regardless, I contend we’re either missing or ignoring what’s going on behind the smokescreen. I do hope you’ll take a few minutes and listen to my interpretation of Harold’s story. The recording is quite rough around the edges, poetic justice?
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