21 magic – 10  21magic – 11
monday, 2 june, '03
the songs in this coding are related to the coding religious songs.
 these songs, however, deal with 'magic',
stated or inferred.
 magic is any event that goes beyond the efforts of science to explain.
 quite often the events sung or spoken about are never 'researched',
they are just accepted as fact;
 aspects of institutional military service that are not 'taught' in military schools or training.
 why can enemy soldiers step on you, without seeing you?
 how can you step on enemy soldiers without seeing them?
 why, when confronted with a life-threatening event, one seems to increase in size, strength.
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 a sense of being invulnerable?
 they include 'ghostly' appearances or disappearances shape shifting.
 death and near death experiences are not specifically included, and both sociologically and psychologically terms are being redefined;
 to date, to my knowledge, nde's now accept that there are cases of return from death as opposed to near death, misdiagnosis of death, etc.
 most combat infantrymen will have observed this occurrence, or know someone who has survived.
 I know that professor lydia fish's collection www vietnam veteran's oral history and folklore project has a number of songs that fit in this coding.
 the songs:
1.
who killed cock robin?
2.
fiddler's green
3.
highlander's farewell to sicily
4.
gremlin song
5.
high flight
6.
to be a soldier
7.
yeoman's leicht wacht
8.
fireball
9.
the crew that never returned
10.
battle of the dak to hills
11.
next man to die