Director Chris Smiley and Producer Mike Hanes, an Iraq War combat veteran, challenge the glorification of war and violence in our culture while exposing the propaganda of the Miramar military air show in San Diego. In memory of Michael Metcalf and all victims of war and violence.
Veterans For Peace https://www.veteransforpeace.org/
Mirrored from Christopher Smiley channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtesBcKtJlYOefyJS4yVrbg
Jacob's Ladder (1990) Movie
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wevYYKOPZ4ZI/
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"1916" LYRICS, written and sung by WWII UK veteran, Jim Radford (starts ~ 16:46):
"Sixteen years old when I went to the war
to fight for a land fit for heroes,
A gun in my hand and God on my side
chasin' my days down to zero.
And we marched and we fought and we bled and we died
and I never did get any older,
But I knew at the time that a year in the line
was a long enough life for a soldier.
Well we all volunteered and we wrote down our names
and we added two years to our ages,
We were eager for life and ahead of the game
ready for history's pages.
And we brawled and we fought and we whored 'til we stood
ten thousand shoulders a shoulder,
With a thirst for the Hun, we've a food for the gun
and that's how it is for a soldier.
Well I hear'd my friend cry as he fell to his knees
coughin' blood as he screamed for his mother,
And I fell by his side and that's how we died
clingin' like kids to each other.
And I lay in the mud and the guts and the blood
and I wept 'til his body grew colder,
And I called for me mother but she never came
though it wasn't my fault and I wasn't to blame,
and the day not half over and ten thousand slain
now there's nobody even remembers our name,
And that's how it is for a soldier."
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