Pinkville Helicopter

Tom Parrott
Lingua: Inglese

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Hugh C. Thompson Jr.

Come nel brano intitolato Song For Hugh Thomson di Davis Rovics, anche questa canzone descrive il massacro di My Lai (16 marzo 1968) in Vietnam dal punto di vista del pilota di elicotteri Hugh C. Thompson Jr., che col suo equipaggio si oppose alla follia degli uomini al comando del capitano Ernest Lou Medina, responsabili dell'esecuzione di massa di civili inermi.
Solo 30 anni più tardi Thompson e il suo equipaggio saranno insigniti della Soldier's Medal al valor militare.

Ricordo che all'epoca molti cercarono di insabbiare il massacro di My Lai, tra costoro anche il maggiore Colin Powell, lo stesso che in tempi più recenti, nella veste di segretario di Stato nel governo Bush, ha raccontato al mondo un mucchio di balle per giustificare l'invasione dell'Iraq...
As they flew over Pinkville, the choppers could see,
The slaughter that went on below them.
And they radioed the dying of the women and kids,
So that general headquarters would know them.

Then one circled down to a place on the ground
Where there were children who were wounded and crying.
And he took them in the chopper to take the kids out
So that they wouldn't be among the dying.

They were on their way out when below them they saw
A little two year old baby
So they went down again and the pilot got out
Muttering "The whole world has gone crazy."

The baby was cradled in the Captain's arms
Wounded and crying and bloody
When a Lieutenant came up and said "Put the kid down
And get your chopper on out of here, buddy."

The Captain looked down at the Lieutenant's gun
That was smoky and hot from the killing.
He said "If I have to give my life for this child,
Then, by God, you know that I'm willing."

Then the gunner who stood in the helicopter's door
Called out to the Lieutenant,
"We're calling your bluff. There's been killing enough.
If your gun starts more, mine will end it."

So they flew the kids out to the medics who said,
"War is hell. Even babies get wounded."
The pilot just looked at his gunner and shook.
Said "To kill them was what was intended."

As they flew over Pinkville, the choppers could see,
The slaughter that went on below them.
And they radioed the dying of the women and kids,
So that general headquarters would know them.

inviata da Alessandro - 27/5/2009 - 13:48

Hugh C. Thompson, Jr

Hugh C. Thompson, Jr

Birth: Apr. 15, 1943, Atlanta, DeKalb County, Georgia, USA
Death: Jan. 6, 2006, Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA.


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Alessandro - 8/4/2010 - 08:33

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