Asymmetric Music

Most of the Veterans Day tributes on youtube have music that I don't like as much as the standards or oldies. The new ones seem a little melodramatic. Vaughn Monroe sings "Old Soldiers Never Die" here. He takes service in stride, as part of a man's nature, not as some extraordinary feat. That's probably because service was more universal back then and people had more of a sense of duty. Countries, too, saw war as part of the human experience, to be avoided, sure, but not unthinkable.

Vaughn Monroe had other male classics in "Sound Off" and the truly great "Ghost Riders in the Sky."

"Sound Off"

"Ghost Riders in the Sky"

A version by Johnny Cash is the podcast.