Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes by singer-songwriter-poet Rod McKuen is probably the only song I still like that I discovered through my parents; a 7” single of it was among their pretty small (and very odd) collection. I loved this song as a kid, for even as a nine-year-old who could only speak a few words of English, I understood its anti-war message. Almost forty years later and a decade after McKuen’s passing I still like the song – and still think war is a pretty terrible idea.