There’s No Love In This War

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Released October 30, 2007

From 1943 until 1945, Paul Arbogast spent his days preparing for, fighting, recovering from, and again fighting a war. The songs that comprise There’s No Love In This War are based on the seventeen letters Paul wrote to the girl he met at the Ukranian Club at home in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the year before he left.

Paul and Julia were married six months after he returned and in 1947 she gave birth to their first child, my father Mark. Paul passed away at the age of 39 of a heart attack, attested mainly to the shrapnel still in his chest from wounds received at Anzio in 1944.

Though she never spoke in detail of Paul, my grandmother Julia had no other man in her life. She passed away a few years ago.

These songs are his, though they may not do him justice. I’ve never fought in a war and hope to always be able to say that.

1. May 14, 1943, The Khaki-Whacky Girls
2. August 13, 1943, Eddie Was a Good Friend of Mine
3. August 27, 1943, A Fortunate Man
4. October 28, 1943, Jule, I’m Not Ready To Die
5. December 18, 1943
6. December 26, 1943, Humphrey Bogart & His Lady
7. June 1, 1944, Instruments of Modern Man
8. June 11, 1944, Pretty in the Red & White Dress
9. June 22, 1944, Standing Outside the Royal Opera House
10. July 3, 1944, I Shot a Man
11. September 5, 1944, Armchair Advisors
12. November 14, 1944
13. March 7, 1945, There’s No Love In This War
14. September 5, 1945, Let Them Dance
15. September 6, 1945, Til My Belly Hangs Over My Belt
16. September 30, 1945, A Soldier’s Blues
17. October 11, 1945, Tell Them That I Said Hello