LETTER: Halftime Snub to Veterans

Did anybody else notice that at Central’s Homecoming halftime, the band played an anti-war song “in support of the troops?”

The song “Johnny, I Hardly Knew You” is a woman singing about her husband coming home from a war having lost both legs and at least one arm. It’s Irish, originally.

The last verse is the woman promising her husband that despite the fact that “They’re rolling out the guns again… they never will take our sons again.” I am not entirely sure that this was the message that the band had meant to convey.

Was this an oversight by the whomever chose the piece? Or were they not expecting anyone in the audience to have a knowledge of Irish folk music?

Jimmy Shepherd

Ludington resident