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Call it peace, or call it treason. Call it love, or call it reason.
Tempers are running hot today. I hope this doesn't add fuel to the flames.
Phil Och's song ends with "the final mission over Japanese skies". A few incidents have occurred since then. Korea. Bay of Pigs. Vietnam. Dominican Republic. Iran-Contra. El Salvador. Nicaragua. Panama. Grenada. Iraq1. Iraq2. Afghanistan. What else have I forgotten? So, the song is incomplete. Lots of neglected verses to be added. What will we write about Syria?
Phil hanged himself in 1976. Here are a couple of songs done by Bob Gibson at Phil's Memorial Concert:
Phil left us with a challenge: what must be done...must be done while we're here...
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