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I haven't heard this song in nearly 60 years! My mother tended bar in Hyder, AZ and I spent hours there while she worked. I was about 10 0r 11, but every nickel I could get (besides ice cream), played this song. I was just a kid, and the patrons would bitch a bit, but I was totally facinated!!!

Wish it would! What amazing people. I'd look like hell in a lion skin, so how can an old man help?

You should have been there! Unfortunately I couldn't because I was in the Army enroute to Nam. I was just a stupid PLT. Sgt, but I expected second plt, 1/1 Cav, 23 Inf Div to be men of honor! Occasionally things happen, but the guys in the First Cav had self rerspect and honor. Rich Campbell

I've never crossed a pickett line and I never will! Thanks to NAFTA and GATT I guess a real pickett line will have to be in asia or mexico! Put a tariff on all incoming goods, as the origional government (oops!, founding fathers) designed. Idiots who scream "no taxaction without " should check...

Jeeze, you guys have no concept of Kerouac, Ginsberg, McKuen and a thousand others who came hone from the war and needed to find themselves. During the three years I was in Nam, I read McKuen poetry, Kerouac literature and Ginsberg philosphy. I rationalized my killing with duty until duty becam...

Woody was certaimly a socialist, and even more a man of feeling and honor. The heart of America wasn't JP Morgan, it was people like Mr Guthrie who lived, and lived and made the backbone of this country!

Mr. Brooks put everything in context, including the horror that was "the final end". As someone who loves Mel Brookks for his intellegence and ability (a mark of smartz), to overcome (?) predijuice, He is decades beyond his time.

His message is nonest

Mel Brooks was the ultimate comic! He could see the humor and the tragety in all of us. Hate him or love him, that's an individual choice, but always think for yourself and laugh when you aren't crying.

Just get in touch with the silly reality of so much that we (nutty humans) consider sacred. Mr Brooks used the media to inform us what was stupid and offer an alternative! Laugh at yourself and you are Mel Brooks!!!

Who is the Best?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was a platoon Sgt with 2 Plt, C Troop, 1/1 Cav, 23Inf Div in Nam 1969 t0 1972 (Yeah, I was nuts), We loved this song and hated the war!!!!! We killed for one reason, to stay alive. We sure as hell weren't fighting to end the red threat, and none of us believed we would be millionaires someda...

Get real! Parents, at least good ones, are always proud of their children even if they don't follow their beliefs. My oldest is a Republican, makes in the high six digets, and my youngest is a pot smoking hippy that makes in the high five digets. One believes in war stuff, the other says the h...

As a young soldier on my way to Vietnam in 1968, I first heard this song. Maybe it made a difference in how I conducted myself and how I saw the "enemy". By the time I had been in Nam for about two years, and had become a platoon Sgt, I knew my objective was to save American and Vietnamese live...

My mother had this record! About thirty years ago I donated this and the rest of my collection to the University of Arizona. This should never be lost!!!!!!!

Eddie's name could have been Bugs O'Malley, and he still would have been "Old Banjo Eyes", loved by millions in spite of their obvious racial flaws! My Jewish mother taught me a joke. "ABCD Goldfish? LMNO Goldfish! OSAR too, AB! Laugh at the idiot biggots and they will dissolve in their own aci...

As a very yound child being exposed to the beauty of such things while living in abject poverty, it made life just a bit easier. And don't worry about anybody, in those days stuff was done for real. A tough but wonderful time!

You know, all this stuff is just full of boys who don't want to be soldier-bad-ass, just uniformed Good for you!!! The moment of "Glory" is nothing to the life of hell you might exprrience. Learn about combat andfigure it out for yourself.

I was in 2/C/1/1 and let me tell you it wasn't all a pic-nic. When we returned from Khe Sanh in early 1971, we had a memorial at Dong Ha. Out of 110 in our unit, there were 79 helmuts set out to honor our lost ones. Afterwards, some AO's were easy and some weren't. I was 2nd Platoon SGT for t...

I was scout section leader and platoon sgt, and off and on platoon Ldr for 2nd plt C Trp 1/1 Cav in Nam 70 to 72. The Infantry thought we were nuts because we rode around in RPG targets. So what! We usually had beer (which we shared) and they only had C-rats(which we didn't want). You couldn'...

Often, one can only wish to ba as civilized! We often caculate civilization with technology, and that is to our loss.

Crosby, Stills,Nash and Young were just a very important moment in time, a time in Vietnam when many of us were looking for idenity and justification.

As an old adult, I love the way I can jump up and down in my seat, cheer and shed tears, and laugh with the freedom that has been lost for nearly half a century. I can only wish that our grandchildren and beyond can know the beauty, values and the heart in such a film. A generation is passing ...

When were most of you born??? You are totally illerate in your omments! Dom Delusie was never a chef nor was Reynold or Caan in this pic. C'mon now--your are talking about Paul Prudhomme. Talking about age at least we know what we are talking about and we are OLD>>>>>>>

Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman actually believe this is history!!!!! Wait unitl they see "On My Way to the Forum" ????????

That voice sure sounds like Rod McKuen, a wonderful poet and an honest believer in truth, fairness and equality. If any of you morans could spell or construct a sentence, well gosh, you might be able to suck in a breath without smelling poop. Anyway, I'm going to quit before I get obnoxious, an...