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[tim]

Whenever I hear the Christmas song "Do you Hear What I Hear?" I can't help but think of the original intent from the writer. It makes me think of the perspective of the WWII generation and how they saw a third World War wherever they looked - the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam.

They are gone now and we have nobody left with personal memories of total war.

I wonder what the WWII generation would think of the events happening in the world today.

Merry Christmas everyone, “Pray for peace, people everywhere"

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.html

A pianist whose forte was popular music, Baker usually wrote the lyrics and Regney composed the music for their collaborations. But the roles were reversed for the Christmas tune they wrote in October 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis, when the U.S. and Soviet Union were locked in a confrontation over the Soviets’ placement of ballistic missiles in Cuba.

Inspired by the sight of infants in strollers on the streets of New York City, Regney opened the song with the words, “Said the night wind to the little lamb, ‘Do you see what I see?’ ” and included the line, “Pray for peace, people everywhere.”

“Noel wrote a beautiful song,” Baker told an interviewer years later, “and I wrote the music. We couldn’t sing it, though. . . . Our little song broke us up. You must realize there was a threat of nuclear war at the time.”

The song was first recorded by the Harry Simeone Chorale and sold more than a quarter-million copies upon its release just after Thanksgiving 1962. The next year Bing Crosby made it an international hit. The song has been recorded hundreds of times since then in nearly every conceivable musical style.

[FullMoon]

I wonder what the WWII generation would think of the events happening in the world today.

Both of my granddaughters contributed during the War.
When Clinton had his sex scandal in the White House it was considered a big deal. He was an Epstein client even then apparently. A captured and controlled President but nobody knew anything about that. Probably wouldn't have believed it. Now that we know what's been going on, it's so much closer to social acceptability. They've all been part of something that a normal person simply can't fathom. Like the scamdemic, most people simply won't allow themselves to believe the evidence. Because it's too uncomfortable.

[Bob Butler]

Whenever I hear the Christmas song "Do you Hear What I Hear?" I can't help but think of the original intent from the writer. It makes me think of the perspective of the WWII generation and how they saw a third World War wherever they looked - the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam.

They are gone now and we have nobody left with personal memories of total war.

I wonder what the WWII generation would think of the events happening in the world today.

Not so sure. Nukes were invented at the end of WW II. Since then, we are deliberately stopping short of total war. I see this as a result of greed. Power can't be increased any more by total war. Absolute control of ashes isn't so hot. Thus, even shooting wars are limited to one area... Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, Ukraine.

Today? Ukraine is a war of greed. Gaza is a war of prejudice, where Israel has a thing about Arabs. I'd like to think that in a Crisis people learn that a particular flavor of conflict is considered ugly and the cultures involved squish that form of conflict. Optimistic, I know. It is easy to see Russia leaning not to try military expansion. I am somewhat less optimistic about the Arabs and Jews forgetting prejudice.

Merry Christmas everyone, “Pray for peace, people everywhere"

Amen.