To me Memorial Day is for honoring and remembering the men and women who gave their lives in The Vietnam War. I know it is for all war casualties but I have personal reasons for particularly honoring these men and women. So I pick three songs to post.

Find the Cost of Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycj-bQXWRrQ

Hope this is not too light hearted for the topic.

Revolutionary War Music (that’s what the collection is called. I only liste ed to some of it.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvLdawL3wHM&list=PLSbHTZkaXc8zj6dlD8L87OksMroJ1o9KB&index=1&pp=iAQB8AUB

Our family have ancestors who faught in the

Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI and WWII, Vietnam War. My grandather joined the Rough Riders at 16.

Scarborough Fair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jj4s9I-53g

If you look up or listen to the under lyrics, you'll hear a soldier cleans and polishes his gun, generals order their soldiers to kill and to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten and washes the grave with silvery tears.

Echoing Carol’s post since it’s one of my favorite songs of all. Also love this version.

Lars, I still have that album from Johnny Horton that was my brother’s.

There are other versions that I like more, but this has many WWII images

I'll Be Seeing You/ Jo Stafford

My dad was in WWII, and my mom's dad was in WWI - he joined up at age 16.

First recording - charted #1 in 1917

Over There/ Nora Bayes

I could not think of any earlier, but now they are coming to me.

Glad you posted that^, salonva - I was trying to think of the name of Buffy Sainte Marie's song and that's it 🙂

From the Vietnam era:

Three-Five-Zero-Zero/ Hair

(Warning - contains the N-word)

I think it's remarkable that some of the music from Hair may still shock after so many decades.

I know Memorial Day is to remember US war dead, our day in Canada to remember is November 11 Remembrance Day. I just thought I would post this Canadian song about honouring and remember those men and women who died fighting during war time

. I hope you don't mind me posting it. My Dad and all my Uncles were WW11 veterans and my Dad taught us to "never forget"

If you skip to the 1:45 mark on this version, you can skip most of the crowd noise. I think this is my favorite version. The flute is haunting. Knopfler's playing is astounding and the emotion with which he is playing heartbreaking to me.

@ Cherryfizz - the eleventh day of the eleventh month is Veterans' Day here - originally Armistice Day.

My dad was in the U.S. Army, not sure if this song was around then or not...

U.S. Army Theme Song

Here's the most famous memorial. The words are so moving, especially set to music...

In Flanders' Fields/ written by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian

“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.” -Herodotus

American soldier

Courtesy of the red, white and blue