“It had sympathy for the troops. I guess that’s all I heard.”
He is telling the they are suckers about to die.
He smiles at the young soldiers tells them it’s all right
He knows of their fear in the forthcoming fight
Soon there’ll be blood and many will die
Mothers and fathers back home they will cry.
I didn’t realize I was responding to the steaming sack of Obama.
My mistake.
I didn’t dissect it like a Law Review. It was a song on the radio that I caught half the words of. I enjoyed the “SKY PILOT” refrain. It sounded heroic to me, as a fifteen year-old.