THE SOLDIer

“I have just listened to THE SOLDIER. It has a poignancy that will surely touch those whose lives have been affected by wars over time. It is eternal this song, with words suggesting images which any soldier would retain for life, whether buried or immediate. I was moved by the ending; it leaves, suspended, the idea of the girl back home. That girl might be any one of millions of females who waited, who grieved, who died old women still thinking back to the happiness they knew before he went away to war.”