the 7 o'clock news ... sound familiar ???

[welshTerrier2]

there's a french saying ""Le plus ça change, le plus c'est la même chose" that means "the more things change the more they stay the same" ...

here is an extract of the lyrics from an old Simon and Garfunkel song called 7 O'clock news / Silent Night ... the nightly newscast was being read in the background while Silent Night was being sung in the foreground ...

is it any wonder we keep hearing references to Vietnam??? have we learned nothing at all after all these years???

here are some of the lyrics:


In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special subcommittee of the House Committee on Un-American activities continued its probe into anti-Viet nam war protests.

Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they began chanting anti-war slogans.

Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless there is a substantial increase in the present war effort in Vietnam, the U.S. should look forward to five more years of war.

In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York, Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single weapon working against the U.S.

That's the 7 o'clock edition of the news, Goodnight.

[NMDemDist2]

1. that was a powerful song, thanks for the memories n/t

[knowbody0]

2. i do believe these memories

are hitting us so that we can heal from those times of darkness. i mostly remember feeling nauseated watching the 7 o'clock news with my WWII vet dad and my draft age brothers.