War and History Non-Fiction posted October 15, 2022

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This is a beautiful song from the 60's

Everyone's Gone To The Moon

by Regina Elliott

The author has placed a warning on this post for violence.

I will explain what the song mostly means

to me in the last paragraph of this poetic

prose. The first stanza of this dreamy

60's song is:

" Streets full of people all alone,

Roads full of houses, never home,

Church full of singing, out of tune,

Everyone's gone to the moon."

I recall the child of the 60's that I was,

how the 60's was a painful time for

the country with the assassinations of

JFK, RFK, and the great civil rights

leader and eloquent speaker,

Dr. Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers,

tragic loss of so many of our young

soldiers' lives in the Vietnam War.

I was a town of Massapequa on

Long Island kid. I interpret the above

first stanza with it's people of

Americana leaving for a more tranquil

life on the moon.

Second stanza:

"Eyes full of sorrow, never wet,

Hands full of money, all in debt,

Sun coming out in the middle

of June,

Everyone's gone to the moon."

I interpret the meaning of the

second stanza first two lines as

about sadness and depression,

and consumerism. The last two

lines of perhaps people escaping

earthly woes by journeying to

the moon.

The 3rd stanza:

"Long time ago

Life had begun,

Everyone went to the sun."

I'm thinking this can mean at

the starting years of humanity

people first went to the sun.

Fourth stanza:

"Cars full of motors, painted

green,

mouths full of chocolate-

covered cream,

arms that can only lift a spoon,

Everyone's gone to the moon."

First line of the stanza has a

futuristic ecological feel to me.

The second line to me is the

pleasures of life,

The third line, I wish I could

talk to the songwriter, because

I'm not real sure what it means.

The last two lines are:

"Everyone's gone to the moon,"

"Everyone's gone to the moon."

And now my most heart-rending

words of my own personal

thoughts on what this lovely

song is part joy, and mostly

sadness for me:

This song came out in 1965,

when the Vietnam War was

ongoing. The average age of

our U.S. soldiers was nineteen.

Yes, only nineteen. Their minds

and eyes were spent,

watching, waiting for the

next firefight with the VC, in

the misty humid jungles.

To me, our soldier's sacrifices,

of losing their war buddy

brothers, and dying far from

the comforts of the U.S.A. and

their loves, their children,

I dream they journeyed to

the moon, sealed in the silence

of peace. Then, after they had

did the assembly of their souls,

they went home to God. ~

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#37
October
2022

This wonderful song gets me in
my psyche and heart. This song
was written by Kenneth King and
the song by Jonathan King
Thank you both for it. A huge
tribute of honor for our
Vietnam War fallen, and the
injured and psychologically
injured Vietnam War veterans.
Welcome Home. ~

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