36 homesickness
36 homesickness
sunday, 29 june, '03
' home is where I lay my head (dig my bunker) each night' ;
 helmet graffiti (o?
) from vietnam war.
 every one of the 150 men in my infantry school/parachute qualification course turned up from our 30 day embarkation leave (for vietnam) at least 3, 4 days early.
 the army had, in a very real sense, become our family and home.
 yes, we realized (as young, first enlistment soldiers) that genetic family loved and missed us, perhaps wives or girlfriends, the depth of service life, the 'thickness' as current anthropology has it, as opposed to the shallowness of civil non family life, perhaps explains the dearth of 'homesickness' songs.
1.
highlander' s/hilt's lili
2.
2.
 I want to go home x 5
3.
dear old blighty
4.
waitin' for the bird
5.
silver bird/one day