Posted on 09/11/2011 10:50:23 AM PDT by ventanax5
LOL, but not really. She was there? What the hell did she sing?
The silence of 3000 voices. You don't understand poetry, but you've got bigotry down in aces.
Sarah McLachlan sang “In the Arms of the Angel.” It was beautiful.
"Drip, Drop"
It’s a great song, but not appropriate to the occaison.
Amazing Grace,
Danny Boy,
Onward Christian Soldiers (my late father’s favorite at any time)
and The Battle Hymn of the Republic, yes.
I don’t expect a Bloomberg lib to understand these things.
I’m with you on this one!
Maybe the Sounds of Silence should permeate the liberal minds as well as some of our Conservative ones.
Just think, if they had clergy there, we would have been listening to Revs Sharpton and Jackson. I prefer the introspection.
In his volume, “The Grand Alliance” Churchill mentions that when he and Roosevelt met in the North Atlantic, they had a Sunday Service on board HMS Prince of Wales.
Roosevelt asked Churchill to select the hymns and one of those was “Onward Christian Soldiers”. I later saw a video of the service and Churchill is singing it from heart and Roosevelt is using a hymnal.
Churchill mentions that within a few months most of those young sailor were dead.
That song would never be allowed in today’s PC world.
Being anti-Islamic is bigotry? Thank you Madame, I’ll take that as a compliment. And watch who you accuse of not understanding poetry.
Thanks for relating that.
My dad played piano and when he played OCS he definitely put some jazzy english on the keys...he loved that song. Made the Christian Soldiers march doubletime...*g*,
That's the way I read it, too. If you've lost a loved one, and are missing them terribly, you are left with silence. They are gone, vanished, they no longer have a voice. One day you can see them, touch them, and talk to them, but in an instant they have vanished and in their place you only have the emptiness of silence.
It sure beats the heck out of someone performing the song "Imagine."
Amen
The Sound of Silence is waaaaay preferable to Sharpton and Jackson... silence is good next to those two...
Far better to go into battle, having thought about what is meaningful, and having looked deep inside oneself, rather than whoop and holler your way into battle finding that in your rage, you forgot your weapons.
Far better to go fully into battle armed and ready with total victory as the objective - not all hoopla and indecision like we did in Korea & Vietnam - Our big mistake was to turn back half way through in Iraq the first time.
So glad we didn’t have clergy at the memorial. Their prayers might have prevented us from hearing an aging hippie singing a pointless song that completely failed to apply to the situation at all.
I agree with you. While the 3000 voices are silent, most of America has gone back to worshiping their neon god which represents material things.
Which is about a druggie overdosing in a hotel room.
I remember my old girlfriend loved “Bridge Over Troubled Water”.
.... as do I.
That would have been a more appropriate song, as its a song of consolation.
“I remember my old girlfriend loved “Bridge Over Troubled Water”.”
.... as do I.
That would have been a more appropriate song, as its a song of consolation.
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