Hate this song on a number of levels, but Stan deserves every cent he made off it after all those brilliant Wall of Voodoo albums that probably went nowhere financially...
Long time no hear...sjeesh..indeed since 86 ??Back in a time when we teenagers learned to revere the GIs in the jungle of Vietnam with songs like these (Billy Joel? Kim Wilde? Paul Hardcastle?), the dozen or so cinema movies, the coming VN game shooters....and today we know more&better..in fact the US GIs backed a highly corrupt and unpopular South VN "government", and the GIs were in fact the bad guys...Amazing how one generation after the popular hippie protests in the 60s 70s can turn things over...And that was before propaganda influencers like facebook etc....h