John Prine "Sam Stone"

The first instinct for a music blogger on Memorial Day, would be to post a song about a soldier that died.  That's the point of Memorial Day, right?  To think about the soldiers who gave their lives?

Maybe a more appropriate approach to the day, would be to think about the soldiers who gave their lives, but are still alive.  Some who have gone to war, came back, but were never the same.

We can visit graves and march in parades and fly flags and feel patriotic, but would we think about sending soldiers to war, if we, as a society, were on the hook for looking the Sam Stones of the world in the eye, and spending the day working to properly honor what they gave and what they lost?


Hear the song on Youtube.