A different war, and many years' difference, but I think of this song...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd9KpRD6QN0! No longer available"Forty Years"
(On the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II)
Here in Berlin -- people line up to get in
To wait for the end -- living in glorious sin
They've looked around -- and now there is no looking back
To when rivers ran red -- now it's the sky that grows black
Shadows are cast as two giants roam over the earth
We light a match -- but what is that little flame worth
Once allies danced and sang
But it was forty years ago
Here in D.C. -- they talk about 'Euro-disease'
And how the French are always so damn hard to please
Motions are passed in Brussels but no one agrees
And no one walks tall -- but no-one gets down on their knees
Once allies laughed and drank
But it was forty years ago
Where I come from
They don't like Americans much
They think they're so loud, so tasteless, and so out of touch
Stiff upper lips are curled into permanent sneers
self-satisfied
Awaiting the next forty years
Once allies cried and cheered
But it was forty years ago
