Listen to this when
Goodnight Saigon
For the ones who stood beside you in the hardest times 🎖️
Who it's for
Billy Joel follows Marines from training at Parris Island into the fear and loss of combat in Vietnam.
Haunted and grieving→Bonded in remembrance
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Goodnight Saigon" is a Billy Joel song from his 1982 album The Nylon Curtain. It follows U.S. Marines from training at Parris Island into combat in the Vietnam War, sung as "we" rather than "I" to convey a shared experience of camaraderie, fear and survival. Joel said he was writing about the soldier as a person rather than commenting on the war.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Heads up: References to war and death.
Age: Suggested 13+
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.Wilfred Owen, Poems, “Dulce et Decorum Est”
