[Eric]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

My 'favourite war' is the one that was avoided, so nobody caused a 'song and dance' over it.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't think that this thread was about our attitudes to war. Since Trinity, it's been an even worse idea than it was before ... not a good way of problem solving. And I certainly am not a dulce et decorum est kinds guy. But some of the soundtracks of war movies, I really like ... much more than patriotic stuff like Vera's Hits from the Blitz ... or the marches. I particularly like the soundtrack from "Platoon", especially Barber's "Adagio for Strings":




And, in a different, but still ironically poignant way, the Mouseketeers song from "Full Metal Jacket":