One of my favorite John Prine songs. He wrote it at the age of 25 right after getting out of the army:
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43 sats \ 1 reply \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 27 Nov
Man, it's been a bit since I've listened to Prine. Had almost forgotten how goos he was.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 27 Nov
Every few years I dig back in. Then my family asks me to stop playing that damn song over and over.
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43 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby 26 Nov
I have never heard this song.
Nice story song.
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63 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 26 Nov
No, not nice. It is a hard song, but a true song.
People say, “Thank you for your service.” It is absolute BS. They just don’t know.
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40 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 OP 26 Nov
He wrote this when he got out of the army he never got sent to Vietnam, but a lot of his friends did.
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63 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 26 Nov
He was lucky in that respect if he was in the Army. Coming back whole was a feat usually accomplished by the support troops in VietNam. Everybody else came back somewhat damaged, one way or another.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 27 Nov
I think he was stationed in Germany.
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63 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 27 Nov
That was the escape that a lot of them managed to make. He probably wasn’t a ground pounder, either. A lot of the people that went to Germany had some other speciality in the military.
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