Brothers in Arms

On my last night in Tam Dao (in the mountains) I put on my Ipod to help me sleep. I put it on shuffle and said to myself "ok whatever song comes on first I was meant to listen to.'' The first song that came on was a Dire Straits song. Dire Straits was one of my father's favorite bands and I uploaded an album of his when I first got my Ipod. Mind you, I never listen to the Dire Straits songs usually I skip over them. This is the song that came onto my Ipod that night and I feel that it was a message. This song is about the Vietnam War,which I think we need to talk about when I come back.

The picture is the of the only geocache that I found while I was there. It is a virtual cache so I had to find this site and take a picture of it. It is off the beaten path and was quite difficult because many Vietnamese don't know about it. It is the remains of an American B52 bomber that was shot down by the Vietnamese when we bombed Hanoi for 12 days strait. This is significant because shortly after the bombing of Hanoi is when we started pulling our troops out of Vietnam and the war ended.

Please read the lyrics:

Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones
Now the suns gone to hell
And the moons riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But its written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We were fools to make war
On our brothers in arms