Originally Posted by
rootboy
Nice composition, ButchA.
Thanks... In the closing credits, those are my two brother-in-law's names that I listed.
Jack Keery is also seen in a cameo in slideshow during the chorus where the lyrics go, "Vietnam Heroes, pray for all the names on the wall". My sister Linda and brother-in-law Jack went up to DC and visited the Vietnam Wall. It really hit Jack hard, as he saw all the names of the guys in his platoon on the wall, and spent about a week drunk out of his mind once they got back home. Tragically, he is only 1 of 6 out of his whole platoon that made it home safe and sound after the war.
My other brother-in-law James "Brute" Nowak, is also referred to in the lyrics, namely, "Hanging from a Huey way up in the sky..." As "Brute" was a doorgunner during Vietnam and hung out the door with an M60 machine gun. He always joked that the life expectancy of a doorgunner was 15 minutes, so I added that also to the lyrics. Tragically, that last line in the verses also is in honor and memory of "Brute" as he succumbed to heart failure and cancer due to exposure of Agent Orange. When I played this song for my sister Karen, she cried...
Edit... Also, yours truly has a cameo in the slideshow during the lyrics "I was just a little kid when you went away to war". That is a photo of me in 4th grade in 1970.