Open Thread - 06-27-25 - Can You Tell Me, Please, Who Won?
Submitted by JtC on Fri, 06/27/2025 - 8:50am
The song, Wooden Ships, was written in 1968 by David Crosby and Stephen Stills of Crosby Stills and Nash fame, and Paul Kantner of the band Jefferson Airplane. My personal favorite of the two songs that were recorded was the Airplane version from 1969 on the album Volunteers.
The song was about a group of nuclear war survivors adrift on a wooden ship after both sides of the conflict were annihilated. After survivors of both sides meet one another, one ask of the other, "Can you tell me, please, who won?"
Three days after a cease fire agreement in what is being called The 12-Day War between Israel and Iran, I am asking that same question.

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