Songs you think of on Memorial Day or your country's equivelant

When I think of the people who died during war it always leaves me a bit hurt in my heart, irregardless of who was fighting who or why.
To the best of my knowledge most countries commemorate the fallen with a day of reflection.
On these days what are the songs that tap on your heart and mind.
For me
And the band played Waltzing Matilda - the pogues or eric bogle
The grave - Don Mclean
Paschendale - Iron Maiden
tend to sit in my conscience

Please don't get political, just calmly and thoughtfully post the songs that effect you when thinking of these things.
Cheers

 

Front Line Assembly-Angriff

 

Jason Isbell’s “Dress Blues”

 

Johnny Cash's version is best known but I've always had affection for the Peter LaFarge original.

 

The mentioned "And the band played Waltzing Matilda" is to me, one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. I have a John McDermott CD titled Remembrance with that and many other such songs.
Another one I always think of, having grown up when the men, and some women, were dying in Vietnam, is "The Ballad Of The Green Berets".

 

James Taylor- Belfast To Boston

 

Whenever someone has one of those saddest songs threads that is always my choice ... still effects me after 30 or more years of hearing it

 

Bastille Day - Rush (Canada)
Decoration Day - John Lee Hooker (US, old name for Memorial Day)

 

More Than a Name On a Wall - The Statlers

God Bless all Veterans and their families

 

Iron Maiden - Fortunes Of War

 

Old Pennsylvania boy myself and did much of my history major on the American Civil War:

“Battle Hymn of the Republic”
“Amazing Grace”
“Battle Cry of Freedom”
“Just Before the Battle, Mother”

Others inspired by World War II—both the Allies and German forces loved these songs:
“Lili Marlene”
“Silent Night” (“Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht”)

And one that always comes up now and on Independence Day that I cannot ******* stand:

“I’m Proud to be an American”

 

Decoration Day by Drive-by Truckers

 

An Israeli Melancholic New wave artist from the 80'

RONEN BEN TAL - THE LAST MORNING

And a terrible cold
Only the silence echoes him
The last morning hardens the air
Up there they wait for him
A hand ... only you die alone
You no longer need anyone then
You go back to the ground, turn into dirt

 

I was hoping someone would post this.

 

Great song on the topic.
Stormy Six ~ Stalingrado

 

I mostly crank the oldies for Memorial Day.

 

Such a touching song from one of my ultimate favorite musicians, Johnny Cash ,a real legend.

Johnny Cash - Streets of Laredo

 

I can't believe no one has posted this one yet.