What You See Is What You Get. This is a journal blog, an explore-blog, a bit of this and that blog. Sharing where the mood takes me. Perhaps it will take you too.
I swithered on where to post this one, given that there is an official day in August for this item... but I have more than enough episodes to share and given this is the Purple Heart and yesterday was the day of the romantic heart, I am rather stretching the connection and placing it here! There is nothing romantic about war - and by connection, one could argue there is nothing romantic about being decorated for participating in war. Yet medals do have a romance about them, and the history of this one does have something vaguely ....mmm... picturesque about it. I can stretch the February connection just a tad further by noting that George Washington was a Febby baby. (That'll make sense once you watch the vid.)
For some reason, though, when it comes to the song itself, Sabaton appear not to have produced either a music video or even a lyric video for it. I could only find it as a track on the Primo Victoria album on Spotify - with no alternative listening source. If you don't wish to use Spotify, it will be a case of making do with the snippets on the history vid.
Hari OM Indeed they are... and I think that by watching them, you are realising that in no way are Sabaton and their team romanticising anything - but they are emphasising the point of view of the strategists, the soldiers, sailors and flyers in a 'from the ground' perspective.
I had the great privilege of caring and nursing a number of Australian veterans - three of whom had experienced the Kokoda trail (vid coming up in April). Nothing at all romantic, except the bond they built from that shared experience... some were proud of the medals - one man could hardly bear to look at his........ Yxx
People whose lives have been irreversibly changed or destroyed by war are supposed to be grateful for a medal? It is a great piece of marketing when you think about it. Where are medals for survivors of a Turkish earthquake? And as for the medical benefits to recipients (grrrr) a civilized nation should be addressing the basic medical needs of its entire population - industrial accidents, civilian shootings (sorry did I use the word civilized?), rapes and physical abuse, contagious and infectious illness, etc They are all people who didn't ask for what happened to them. Sorry but F has never been impressed by service medals - especially the 'shut up and be grateful' kind.
Hari OM Absolutely agree - and so does the song, which I hope everyone is giving a chance... as the words in the chorus make clear... "Fallen in war Sleep six feet below Hearts of the brave Cannot bring me back to life" YAM xx
I am impressed that these guys are doing the videos for those who like history, and that they chose the purple heart, there is much there I did not know, but I lean towards what F says about medals. just like now, everyone says Blue lives matter, black lives matter, and to me all lives matter and all that go to war deserve a medal.. and those who stay home and keep the country running while the others are at war deserve medals to. I don't get the thing about worrying about people dead years ago deseriving medals. makes no sense to me.
My WW2 veteran father always felt that films romanticised warfare, and was so strongly opposed to this that I never watched a 'war film' until I was at least 30 years old (and a bit of me still feels I'm betraying his memory if I do now, even if it's one that most certainly isn't in anyway glamourizing the endeavour!)
Kind of agree with your Dad - especially the films made after WWII (we saw that one on bouncing bombs and the Ruhr Valley dams recently), however I might make a point of seeing All Quiet on the Western Front. Xxx F
I see nothing romantic about war either.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe
I’ll echo Dora’s comment about war not being romantic- but some of these videos have been very interesting.
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DeleteIndeed they are... and I think that by watching them, you are realising that in no way are Sabaton and their team romanticising anything - but they are emphasising the point of view of the strategists, the soldiers, sailors and flyers in a 'from the ground' perspective.
I had the great privilege of caring and nursing a number of Australian veterans - three of whom had experienced the Kokoda trail (vid coming up in April). Nothing at all romantic, except the bond they built from that shared experience... some were proud of the medals - one man could hardly bear to look at his........ Yxx
People whose lives have been irreversibly changed or destroyed by war are supposed to be grateful for a medal? It is a great piece of marketing when you think about it. Where are medals for survivors of a Turkish earthquake? And as for the medical benefits to recipients (grrrr) a civilized nation should be addressing the basic medical needs of its entire population - industrial accidents, civilian shootings (sorry did I use the word civilized?), rapes and physical abuse, contagious and infectious illness, etc They are all people who didn't ask for what happened to them. Sorry but F has never been impressed by service medals - especially the 'shut up and be grateful' kind.
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DeleteAbsolutely agree - and so does the song, which I hope everyone is giving a chance... as the words in the chorus make clear...
"Fallen in war
Sleep six feet below
Hearts of the brave
Cannot bring me back to life"
YAM xx
I am impressed that these guys are doing the videos for those who like history, and that they chose the purple heart, there is much there I did not know, but I lean towards what F says about medals. just like now, everyone says Blue lives matter, black lives matter, and to me all lives matter and all that go to war deserve a medal.. and those who stay home and keep the country running while the others are at war deserve medals to. I don't get the thing about worrying about people dead years ago deseriving medals. makes no sense to me.
ReplyDeleteMy WW2 veteran father always felt that films romanticised warfare, and was so strongly opposed to this that I never watched a 'war film' until I was at least 30 years old (and a bit of me still feels I'm betraying his memory if I do now, even if it's one that most certainly isn't in anyway glamourizing the endeavour!)
ReplyDeleteKind of agree with your Dad - especially the films made after WWII (we saw that one on bouncing bombs and the Ruhr Valley dams recently), however I might make a point of seeing All Quiet on the Western Front. Xxx F
Deletewe fear any kind of war... there is never a winner only losers...
ReplyDeleteNo, there is nothing romantic about war. The loss of lives from war is just sad. Thanks for sharing the song. Take care, have a great day!
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting history lesson about the Purple Heart. I didn't know its evolution from the Revolutionary war to today.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea about the history of the Purple Heart either.
ReplyDeleteHugs Cecilia