What a trilogy of songs about a Viet Nam vet sung by the Bellamy Brothers. “Old Hippie” takes an old soldier’s life at 35, 45 and then 55. He describes his journey to Viet Nam as a high school trip. He states he was just a boy when they forced him to be a man. From there, he travels through time and all of its memories and changes.
My favorite in the trilogy is the last song where he gets right with God and becomes a Christian. Hymns to this vet became more important than rock and roll. For many of those young men who became old men, life’s experiences led to heaven’s gates.
Life is so brief, especially for an old hippie and vet.
whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah
We had the privilege of knowing so many of those men who taught us much.
Think about it.
Gary