Lyrics:
Goin' home, goin' home, I'm a goin' home; Quiet-like, some still day, I'm jes' goin' home. It's not far, jes' close by, Through an open door; Work all done, care laid by, Goin' to fear no more. Mother's there 'spectin' me, Father's waitin' too; Lots o' folk gather'd there, All the friends I knew, All the friends I knew. Home, I'm goin' home!
Nothin lost, all's gain, No more fret nor pain, No more stumblin' on the way, No more longin' for the day, Goin' to roam no more! Mornin' star lights the way, Res'less dream all done; Shadows gone, break o' day, Real life jes' begun. There's no break, there's no end, Jes' a livin' on; Wide awake, with a smile Goin' on and on.
Goin' home, goin' home, I'm jes' goin' home, goin' home, goin' home, goin' home!
Perhaps unrelated, but probably the worst job of WWII in the US armed forces would have been handling the retrieval and repair of damaged Sherman tanks.
23 YO very sad, these guys never questioned their duty.
Compare them to so many 23 YO’s today
"...buried at sea..."
Have seen this many times but never tire of it. Thanks for posting.
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Goin Home.....one of my very favorites
The music is from Dvorak’s New World Symphony....
.....the adapted words speak for themselves
Rest in peace ...
That was tough. Heavy respect for those Pacific guys.
This author tells this story bluntly but factually in yet another tribute to the fallen. I am doubtful though that this is the only time this kind of thing took place.
My Mom and Dad told me how what was left of young men was washed out of 8th Air Force bombers so the planes could be used for parts or patched up and sent out again. Not even enough parts to send home and of course just a telegram saying “your son died. sorry.”
We sometimes send these things out but why? it is not for gee whiz, my that’s interesting. For me it is because this is what I think about when I wonder why so many things are wrong. Why are so many unmoved by these sacrifices and not understand why they are made and why are so many moved to destroy traditions that are so good and right to so many of us?
Doesn’t anyone who disrespects our country disrespect these young men who went to do what the nation told them to do because it had to be done many times. If the wars were not honorable the boys who served and died as directed have surely earned respect and deserve to be honored by how the nation they served is managed and how we who benefit from living here behave. The disrespect extends beyond these young men to their families who live today.
I hate the Jim Acostas who debate decorum when they must know they are wrong, the socialists who are accepted and given free reign because it is their “right” in spite of our rights and what we agreed to be a standard, the teachers who fall in line with revisionist teaching or omissions, the asylum seekers who only take and never assimilate, the parents who are no better and even worse, kids being taught to celebrate diversity and that national pride is somehow wrong. We have come to stand for very little and almost nothing and some of us and some before us have been saying this for a long, long time. Just trying to live a good example has not been nearly enough.
When MEN were MEN, WOMEN were WOMEN
AND everyone knew the difference between the TWO.
Thank you, bkopto, for posting this clip.
I found a 3:28 minute clip of it just now and have sent it to prior military folks in my family and a few friends.
It’s breathtaking. Simply breathtaking.
“Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”
From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
Thank you for posting this.