27 weary warrior 16
27 weary warrior 16
wednesday, 11 june, '03
the songs in this coding are songs that express the utter exhaustion, physical and mental, that are felt far too often in military service, especially in combat conditions.
 songs that express a soldier's 'carrying on' with mission accomplishment far beyond the body's physical ability to carry out the task, through death and mutilation, high casualty rates, all your friends, your mates, being dead or wounded, concussed by frequent and seemingly unending explosive detonations in one's close proximity.
 the feeling of one's body being regularly ripped and punctured by flying, flaming hot bits of steel.
 the exhaustion caused by the inability of the soldier to eat because of continuing and continuous incoming fire or enemy assault' s;
 the stress and terror that is felt by the body, but that the mind and spirit ignores when in a militarily hostile environment.
 remember that even in vietnam, with availability of helicopters to transport rations rapidly to individual units, 85 % of all infantry/abn/special ops soldiers treated for wounds were also suffering from malnutrition when arriving in hospital.
 the songs:
1.
boots
2.
the infanteer
3.
swing low
4.
fiddler's green
5.
cpl.
 peter
6.
next man to die
7.
yeoman's leicht wacht
8.
when I was a young man
9.
never mind x 4?
10.
sittin' on a hillside
11.
there is no war
12.
ling po
13.
this cruel war x 2
14.
grunt blues
15.
battle of the dak to hills
16.
airborne all the way
17.