Harry Patch Song- apersonal appreciation

[redlotus51]

I know it's been a while since Harry Patch was released... my world moves this slow because of illness. But I wanted to share some personal identification with this song. It is up there with 4 Minute Warning which reminds me of the days I spent under my desk during the Cuban Missile Crisis ( yes, I am a fossil).One of the most moving and beautiful things to come out of 'rock' music ever. Thom's phrasing of Harry's words and the emotion of his singing and Jonny's fantastic score is a landmark!If anyone ever gets a chance to communicate with Jon and Thom tell them my father was in the invasion of Omaha Beach in WWII. He would still wake up screaming 40 years later till the day he died. My Dad too, "saw devils rising out of the Earth" ( I just got so choked up at this line I could not read it to my wife) and he was one of the few from his unit to survive. People being cut down in the water or even before they got off the landing craft.That's why I am anti-war and against the system of aggression and exploitation behind it.For a world without exploitation, oppression and war !