but I scrolled down and there it was.

...which shows you how powerful Guthrie's song was.

dying off for decades, of course, and are now almost gone.

This is reminding me of the decades when people traded stories of where they were when they heard Kennedy had been assassinated. Now most people learned about it in school, like we did this tragedy.

Speaking of powerful, we still listen to songs that came out of the Vietnam War era.

Dad was born in 1923, Mom in 1929. All of my uncles and aunts, and my parent's friends, are gone, save one uncle (born 1935) and his wife.

I was speaking with one unforgettable person last spring who survived WWII in Europe. She married an American soldier who brought her out and to her new home. I met her as she was finally closing the knitting shop she'd opened decades ago, sharp and healthy, wearing an exquisite pink suit she'd knitted herself.

In 2019 she was a passionate, committed, and very positive patriot of America and democracy of the best sort. An open minded liberal with no delusions at all, just one hell of a long set of memories and grim and good comparisons that made Churchill's declaration live strong for her still in her mid 90s. She was a big admirer of the America that had developed under it also and believed with its principles we'd bring ourselves through this bad era. Not the first one she's seen.

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 11 November 1947, quoting an unknown predecessor.

I think those who have lived thru times of danger and uncertainty tend to have a more liberal outlook than those who have never experienced such things.

falls in on their heads have at least a little more reality and perspective driven in?

She was never one of those, though. Wish everyone could meet her and others like her. She's spreading her own message while she's still here, though, and doing a very good job of it.

There's a great website that features photos of (almost) every ship in the USN:
http://navsource.org/

My dad was in Borneo when we entered the war.

https://www.legendinc.com/Pages/MarbleheadNet/MM/Articles/USSMarblehead.html

She was an Omaha-class cruiser - fought hard at the beginning of the Pacific conflict. to your father!

parachuting out of Luftwaffe C-160s earning my German wings, also the time when I was touring an active duty Japanese destroyer. Life, war, the times, nations, alliances, sometimes it is weird stuff.