What some Dutch people do in their spare-time

[Dennis_Ista]

yes, we even adopt certain US hobbies here in my country!

[Danno]

Is that a Civil War re-enactment?

[whitediamond]

I cracked up Danno. I thought it was a Boy Scout outing. GUESS WHAT! I had to re-register because BD's profile was buried or something. I contacted Administrator yesterday, received a temp password and THAT DIDN'T WORK EITHER. So, I've gone from Black to White. (I bet Classic likes that) :lol:

[ClassicalLib17]

White Diamond says: I've gone from Black to White. (I bet Classic likes that)

Dear White Diamond( formerly Black Diamond), I think I 'get' what you are implying here, but to be sure, would you mind explaining what you mean when you say " I bet Classic likes that". I am having difficulty in finding a positive meaning in your statement. Please help me to understand with your reply, here.

[Dennis_Ista]

Is that a Civil War re-enactment?

Yes it is

I am a proud member of The Arizona 2nd Cavalry brigade, Infantry attachment.

This was a drill or boot camp, to get familiar with the drills and parades.

[whitediamond]

Sorry Classic--White is going back to Black :lol:

[Blackdiamond]

I'M BACK----RIP WHITE DIAMOND-Dennis, I thought you were going to show an outdoor BBQ-that's the big thing here. Do you have BBQ'S? Hey Danno. The next time you're riding around in North Chicago, check Hillary's out. NO SMOKE coming out of the chimmney. My sister brought me some and I knew right away that the meat had been boiled. I called them and they denied it. The one on Lewis Ave isn't smoking either. That old saying, "where there's smoke, there's fire" is a true statement but not at those two eateries. THANK YOU ADMIN FOR REVIVING BLACKDIAMOND.

[Danno]

Here is a link to a song written in the late 1960's during the height of the Vietnam war. It's about wanting to escape war and the inhumanity of war. I'm posting it because I used to think it was about the American Civil War but according to one of the composers, Steven Stills, it is about the Holocost during WWII.
I'm not sure how the "wooden ships" fits in WWII.

Today our country seems to be almost as divided as it was during the Civil War. There are some people who, being fueled by some in media , if they fail to effect change in upcoming elections, would commence a new civil war here in America. Dehumanizing your enemy is one of the most important first steps in war and that has already happened.

Yes, there are "silver people on the shoreline" who won't leave us be.

Quite a moving song. Wooden Ships by Jefferson Airplane - 1969.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIccZsURy...re=related

If you smile at me you know I will understand
Cause that is something everybody everywhere does
In the same language
I can see by your coat my friend that you're from the other side
There's just one thing I got to know
Can you tell me please who won
You must try some of my purple berries
I been eating them for six or seven weeks now
Haven't got sick once
Probably keep us both alive
Wooden ships on the water very free and easy
Easy you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline leave us be
Very free and easy
Sail away where the mornin sun goes high
Sail away where the wind blows sweet and young birds fly
Take a sister THEN by her hand
Lead her far from this barren land
Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cry and
Stare as all human feelings die
We are leaving
You don't need us
Go and take a sister by her hand
Lead her far from this foreign land
Somewhere where we might laugh again
We are leaving
You don't need us
Sailing ships on the water very free and easy
Easy you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline leave us be
Very free
And gone

[ClassicalLib17]

From Wikipedia

"Wooden Ships" is a rock song written and composed by David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Paul Kantner (of Jefferson Airplane) in the late 1960s. The song was written and composed in Florida on Crosby's boat. Crosby composed the music, and Stills and Kantner wrote most of the lyrics.
Paul Kantner could not be officially credited as one of the joint authors-composers of "Wooden Ships" on the original release of Crosby, Stills & Nash due to legal issues, but he is thus officially credited on the 2006 re-release. The song was also released by Jefferson Airplane the same year on the album Volunteers. Both versions are considered to be original versions of the song, although they differ slightly in wording and melody.

Crosby recorded a solo demo in March 1968 with the melody but no lyrics. Stills recorded his own demo the following month with most of the lyrics in place.

[edit] Timing
"Wooden Ships" was written at the height of the Vietnam War, a time of great tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, nuclear-armed rivals in the Cold War.

[edit] Interpretations
Like Tom Lehrer's "We Will All Go Together When We Go" and Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction," the song seems to deal with ever-present fears of an apocalyptic nuclear war. In this interpretation, the words of the song depict the horrors confronting the survivors of a nuclear holocaust in which the two sides have annihilated each other. A man from one side stumbles upon a man from the other side and asks him "Who won?" To stay alive, they share purple berries that have presumably not been poisoned by radiation. The lyrics beg "silver people on the shoreline" to "let us be;" these are commonly held to be men wearing radiation suits. As wooden ships are carrying the survivors away, radiation poisoning kills those who have not made it aboard:

Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cries
Stare as all human feelings die
However, Stills has stated at music festivals that the song is actually about the Holocaust in Europe during World War II. Though the obscure lyrics do not refer specifically to the events of that particular war, the story of the song can then be interpreted as the meeting of two deserters, or two non-Jewish individuals, who are fleeing Europe to avoid either starvation or participation in anti-Semitic violence. In this context, the "silver people on the shoreline" may refer to Nazi soldiers; the Waffen-SS wore the standard grey uniforms of the German Wehrmacht. The lyrics "Horror grips us as we watch you die / All we can do is echo your anguished cries, / Stare as all human feelings die" could indicate that the characters in the song are observing a horrific slaughter, that of those whom Germany's government considered undesirable and indeed even subhuman, and yet can do nothing at all to prevent or even minimize it.