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Show Bauman Speaks p Green Beret Death li By J. BAUMAN "Back at hoooome a young wife waits (Brrrr-rap Her Green Ber-ret has met his fate (Brrrr-rap tep He has died (Brrrrap) for those oppressed - F -baaaah!) Leaving her (Da-dump dum dump) this last req.. Put silver wings on my son's chest ETC. And so goes Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler's fc' seller hit, the "Ballad of the Green Beret." Really C ' j doesn't it? Suddenly, as this homely voice m i Mac's war, beautiful, misty visions form in tne ". :, l Fourth of July picnics, Kennedy playing m i the beach, Thanksgiving a' la Norman Roc Kweii, San Juan Hill, and Mom's apple pie! God, it i . 'Let us examine this Sergeant's song ""JK S ing prey to the emotional nationalism bum' really about? It is about death. Now, l rii:r songs concerning death; some of our fines o it the Kipling's Hangin' Danny Deeyer. o u . cornball doggerel does not merely examine w fc : or the tragic repercussions of a hanging- o ignoring the inevitable - no, it actually glonM Personally, I find nothing remotely g tono like life: I enjoy making out, I delight in mou. days, I crave long swims and pony-tar eu r and tiny red kites sailing high above bleaK m afternoons. I am in no hurry to nustie coffin and rot. tn A: He croj'-5 ; : Yet Sadler apparently is eager to ,v thrill of willing his infant son his hemag 5 ernment-issued death (Put silver winfh" 'a Greenj-and Greenj-and instantly his thoughts are oea yMidn't be strip and a book by that title. Why, i one day find myself eating a ween . wathing a movie called G. B. (Sed y And all over America our poor bral" t0 the n-f : -Let's hear it for death," and charge ! ot : i station. Who knows how many yo e v into latrine-washing and possibly fljnnis tune? . tant the consept , t Of course, Sadler didn't ; and others like him (the book, f3 cy to g. ' merely reflect a growing national ten g v .. is just part of our psychologies 1 gearing , ( it's part of our development of am pointer My country right or wrong. But i a our co s this budding militant maliterism my terminaW V (i.e. - more oppressive), it may also , less other innocents around tne price, |
