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Post by Al Truest on Jul 3, 2009 15:44:43 GMT
You were closer. I just looked it up. (and edited) I guess that's where the bodies were returned to the families. No, as your correction states, it's British Forces Post Office and it's just that - a postal service for British armed forces. He's not coming home to BFPO but from it. In a letter saying he's dead. Oh, and that's KT8 on the rifles, not KTB. It's not a war song - Kate is quoted above as saying he didn't die in battle. The fact that his death was accidental makes it all the more a waste - he didn't even die for a cause. The song isn't about the rights and wrongs of war, it's about people wasting their potential by being sucked into dehumanising and often fatal military service. Kate's issue seems to be not with war but with the military machine itself. But it's also significant that one of the other quotes says that the mother is filled with remorse. Remorse is specifically regret for something that you've done wrong. So the mother sees it as partly her fault, suggesting that the song - particularly the chorus - is as much about her wondering if she could have done anything to prevent her son's death such as buying him that guitar or ensuring that he did have a proper education. Thanks - I am now just the janitor here.
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