We know of the great songs to have come out of the Civil War ( We’re Tenting Tonight On the Old Camp Ground) and the Revolutionary War ( Yankee Doodle), and the First World War ( I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier) and the Second World War ( The Sinking of the Reuben James), and the Vietnam War ( Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation) but the Cold War? Since the battlefield was more like a chessboard, and the casualties were truth and faith in one’s government, what great songs would one point to give some kind of equal nobility to the cause for which so few died in vain?
