If I think of any ways in which you may publicize, disseminate or draw attention to your song. I will let you know. But I am no expert in social media marketing.
Your song made me think of how Americans view war, now and then, in the bad old days when military service was much more common
Nowadays, most Americans -- as you rightfully pointed out -- have no relationship with the military. Most people do not serve. Most people do not know anyone who serves. In the rarified and snobbish suburbs of New York City, military service is as rare as smallpox. Because they don't serve, they think of soldiers simply as brave men who defend our "freedom." (Of course, Trump said that he thought soldiers were suckers.)
Warfare is lionizied, idealized, romanticized.
During World War Two, an enormous proportion of the country was in uniform. I have read mahy differnt figures, from as low as 10 million Americans in the uniform of the military to as high as 20 million. And most of those people had a Mother or Father or Sister or Lover in civies.
And in those days, when military service was ubiquitous, war was hated with a vengeance. First, the old adage, those who can't do teach, seemed apt for war. Military men were often thought of as slow-witted. Consider the French generals on the eve of World War Two: They were enamored of the cavalry. While those French generals admired their horses, the Germans were poised to terrorize them with stuka dive bombers, messershmidts and panzer divisions. Since world war one was characterized by trench warfare, the French built the Mother of all trenches, the Maginot Line. The germans just went around it, going through the Ardennes forest, which the French thought was impassable even though Germany breached that forest in 1870 as had Julius Caesar.
Also, war results in the indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians. In November 1967, Robert Kennedy said, on either "Face the Nation" or "Meet the Press," that the American military killled 1000 civilians per week in South Vietnam alone. (This doesn' t count the civiilians we killed by bombing North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.)
Also, war is characterized by tons of Friendly Fire.
There is an excellent movie about Vets, that came out in 1945 or 1946, entitled "The Best Years of Our Lives." (One of the actors was a real life American Veteran who had lost his hands fighting the Japanese). Another veteran in the film, doesn't want to wear his uniform and has to rebuke his wife who insists that he don the apparel of war.
If I think of any ways in which you may publicize, disseminate or draw attention to your song. I will let you know. But I am no expert in social media marketing.
Your song made me think of how Americans view war, now and then, in the bad old days when military service was much more common
Nowadays, most Americans -- as you rightfully pointed out -- have no relationship with the military. Most people do not serve. Most people do not know anyone who serves. In the rarified and snobbish suburbs of New York City, military service is as rare as smallpox. Because they don't serve, they think of soldiers simply as brave men who defend our "freedom." (Of course, Trump said that he thought soldiers were suckers.)
Warfare is lionizied, idealized, romanticized.
During World War Two, an enormous proportion of the country was in uniform. I have read mahy differnt figures, from as low as 10 million Americans in the uniform of the military to as high as 20 million. And most of those people had a Mother or Father or Sister or Lover in civies.
And in those days, when military service was ubiquitous, war was hated with a vengeance. First, the old adage, those who can't do teach, seemed apt for war. Military men were often thought of as slow-witted. Consider the French generals on the eve of World War Two: They were enamored of the cavalry. While those French generals admired their horses, the Germans were poised to terrorize them with stuka dive bombers, messershmidts and panzer divisions. Since world war one was characterized by trench warfare, the French built the Mother of all trenches, the Maginot Line. The germans just went around it, going through the Ardennes forest, which the French thought was impassable even though Germany breached that forest in 1870 as had Julius Caesar.
Also, war results in the indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians. In November 1967, Robert Kennedy said, on either "Face the Nation" or "Meet the Press," that the American military killled 1000 civilians per week in South Vietnam alone. (This doesn' t count the civiilians we killed by bombing North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.)
Also, war is characterized by tons of Friendly Fire.
There is an excellent movie about Vets, that came out in 1945 or 1946, entitled "The Best Years of Our Lives." (One of the actors was a real life American Veteran who had lost his hands fighting the Japanese). Another veteran in the film, doesn't want to wear his uniform and has to rebuke his wife who insists that he don the apparel of war.