Ride of the Valkyries....Really?

So, I watched the post convention blowout for Kerry. John Williams and the Boston Pops, fireworks, and so forth. Nice display. Kind of grating to hear John Williams music (like Superman, E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc.) against that scene.

I kept wishing for Born on the Fourth of July. No dice, but what I got may have been better. It was certainly more...odd.

Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." You know the one, with the blaring french horns and all. The problem is that its most famous use in the last several decades was as source music in Coppola's Apocalypse Now.

We all know that Kerry, by the way, served in Vietnam.

But we also know that the scene in Apocalypse Now that Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" overlays is one in which American soldiers in helicopters massacre Vietnamese civilians with machine guns.

Kerry's admitted to committing atrocities in Vietnam. Perhaps few people know that, but the collision of John Kerry, Vietnam vet, with "Ride of the Valkyries" is most unfortunate because of the reminders that it dregdes up from our collective movie-going past.