But my thoughts kept returning to an Australian song I used to know, called "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda". The only thing I really remembered well was the last refrain, that goes like this:
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> 'But the band plays "Waltzing Matilda,"
> And the old men still answer the call,
> But as year follows year, more old men disappear
> Someday, no one will march there at all.'
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> The song, of course, is written about the men who fought for Australia in the Gallipoli campaign, and the last refrain refers to the yearly parades held to honor those who fought in this battle. I find it an incrediably moving song, but I never really knew that there might be any sort of connection between it and the Vietnam war, and was wondering why my mind dredged it up while I was thinking about Vietnam. I guess now I know.


"Waltzing Matilda" was the theme song of an old doomsday movie called "On the Beach." I remember the tune, but not much of the words. Same song?
Howard