08-18-2004, 03:41 PM
Yeah, I've read the Dieppe idea, too, but I don't really buy it.
The dying at Dieppe took place on land, not by drowning, and it was much fewer than 4000 killed.
I think that's a case of looking for a Canadian reference where one doesn't necessarily exist.
Actually, if you start exploring the secondary meanings you get from the Lancastria details, you can call into question the popular notion that this is about a relationship going south. How, for example, does Churchill's order that survivors not speak the incident or even acknowledge it happened relate to the last line of the song? Might he actually be saying, "I've already forgotten the conversation you asked me not to speak of?" Might this be a disaster within a relationship, after which they pick up the pieces (survivors) and carry on, agreed never to speak of it?
Never research anything, it only leads to more questions. :lol:
The dying at Dieppe took place on land, not by drowning, and it was much fewer than 4000 killed.
I think that's a case of looking for a Canadian reference where one doesn't necessarily exist.
Actually, if you start exploring the secondary meanings you get from the Lancastria details, you can call into question the popular notion that this is about a relationship going south. How, for example, does Churchill's order that survivors not speak the incident or even acknowledge it happened relate to the last line of the song? Might he actually be saying, "I've already forgotten the conversation you asked me not to speak of?" Might this be a disaster within a relationship, after which they pick up the pieces (survivors) and carry on, agreed never to speak of it?
Never research anything, it only leads to more questions. :lol: