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On the cover are soldiers marching down a city street. A skyline is behind them, and the lights spell out, "Welcome Home." [5] The song calls for a celebration when the soldiers return home from war. The chorus is as follows: [2] Gee! What a wonderful time we'll have When the boys come home The girls will be dressed in their Sunday best
Oley Speaks composed the song. John Hay wrote the lyrics. The piece was written for both voice and piano. The song, written in first person, takes on a positive tone.The lyrics detail the happiness and celebration that will be felt when the soldiers return home from war.
Written by pianist Don Walker, "Khe Sanh" concerns an Australian Vietnam veteran dealing with his return to civilian life. According to Toby Creswell's liner notes for the band's 1991 compilation album Chisel, the song is also a story of restless youth. [1] The context of the song is that "soldiers met a hostile reception on their return home". [2]
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In Kentucky, the remains of several World War II dead have been repatriated in recent years. Some examples include: Floyd D. Helton enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17, obtaining his father ...
At age 19, answering the call for soldiers after Fort Sumter was attacked in 1861, he enlisted in the Massachusetts Infantry, "unaware of what was to come," as Ryan writes in a brief summary.
Composed as a corrido, [22] the song is about wounded soldiers returning home for Christmas, [28] with dismal lyrics set incongruously to an upbeat Mexican melody. [12] Cooder wrote the song in response to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal and previous stories of neglected soldiers returning from the Iraq War. [11]
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