Lyric discussion by wytstuff 

Bennetit is a Republican. This is about Viet Nam. Our war there went on for 15 years; yes, rain is a metaphor for the rain of bombs and terror poured onto those people; "Virginia" is a beach outside Saigon; five year plans, and new deals were empty promises and smoke screens politicians put up to promote the war and keep it going....we obviously didn't learn a damn thing from this tragedy. We don't know or care about our own hisory, much less that of those our government calls "enemies".

@wytstuff A close friend is a Marine who was in Vietnam; he mentioned the war was popularly called "the rain." The rain fell on everybody.

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