Vietnam War - Music Video - Riders on the Storm

Thank you, my friend CPL Dave Hoover for posting the music video of The Doors performing the beautifully somber song "Riders on the Storm" as a haunting soundtrack as images and video of scenes from the Vietnam War scroll by.

"Riders On The Storm" written by John Densmore, Robby Krieger,Ray Manzarek, and Jim Morrison
Lyrics
"Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm

There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If you give this man a ride
Sweet family will die
Killer on the road, yeah

Girl, you gotta love your man
Girl, you gotta love your man
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends
Our life will never end
Gotta love your man, yeah

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan.
Riders on the storm

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm"

Background on the song
"Robby Krieger said, that this song was inspired by the song "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" by Stan Jones. Jim Morrison mentioned once in an interview that Billy Cook murders were inspiration for the song's lyrics. Cook killed six people while hitchhiking to California. Morrison even wrote a screenplay "The Hitchhiker (An American Pastoral)" about a hitchhiker who goes on a murder spree.
The echo effect on this song was created by Jim Morrison who recorded his main vocals and then whispered the lyrics over them. The effect of rain was created by Ray Manzarek playing the Fender Rhodes electric piano. Manzarek told Uncut magazine in September 2011 about the whispered voice, "If you listen closely, a whispered overdub that Jim adds beneath his vocal. That's the last thing he ever did. An ephemeral, whispered overdub."
This was the last song Jim Morrison recorded. The single was released shortly before his death.
The lyrics "Into this world we're thrown" was inspired by the book "Sein und Zeit" ("Being and Time" in English) by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger who created the concept of "thrownness".
Disc jockey Alison Steele always played this song on rainy Monday nights while she worked at New York City's WNEW-FM radio in the 1970s.
"Riders on the Storm" is the title of the book by the band's drummer John Densmore, where the story of his life and his time with the group portrayed in detail."

FYI LTC Wayne Brandon LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj Robert Thornton CPT Scott Sharon SSG William Jones SSG Donald H "Don" Bates PO3 William Hetrick PO3 Lynn Spalding SPC Mark Huddleston SGT Rick Colburn [SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke SP5 Jeannie Carle Maj Marty Hogan SCPO Morris Ramsey Sgt Albert Castro Lt Col Charlie Brown

This is a great song by the Doors, but I have never heard/seen it with the a military backdrop! The Vietnam war zone scenes are intensely graphic, but awesome at the same time! Great Post CPL Dave Hoover !!!

Great music video share this morning!