Did the government use taxis to send death notices to families during the Vietnam war?
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I’m asking this because I am trying to find out the meaning of ‘a big yellow taxi took away my old man’ in the song ‘Big Yellow taxi’ by Joni Michell.
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June 27th, 2011 at 1:41 am
That is absurd. Whenever a soldier is killed, the military sends an officer along with a chaplain to the deceased’s home to break the news.
June 27th, 2011 at 1:45 am
there may not be any symbolic meaning
June 27th, 2011 at 1:47 am
No; uniformed chaplains came to deliver the news. I’ve always heard that the last verse refers to a lover who left her; back in the day, your boyfriend was as likely to be “your old man” as your dad was.
June 27th, 2011 at 2:27 am
Pathfinder is right, and they usually took a military vehicle. I remember the song and I took it as the big yellow taxi took away my old man was the guy leaving his family.
June 27th, 2011 at 2:59 am
Yes:( Unfortunatly but some ppl changed that and deliverd the notices in person.
June 27th, 2011 at 3:12 am
In the beginning of the Vietnam war, taxis were used to deliver the message that an individual was killed.
I don’t know if there is any correlation between that and the song.
If nothing else, write http://www.snope.com and ask them. They will do the research.
June 27th, 2011 at 3:51 am
yea, i heard something like that.
June 27th, 2011 at 4:50 am
Back before the Causality Assistance Program the notices came by telegram (Western Union). Western Union paid taxi companies to deliver the telegrams. Some drivers quit rather than do it.
June 27th, 2011 at 4:52 am
I have heard of that happening in the early stages of the war at some bases.
June 27th, 2011 at 4:54 am
Actually Taxi did deliver telegrams and it just so happened that during the Vietnam war they got there before the officials did sometimes. It even happened during WW2 but it was by accident not on purpose.
June 27th, 2011 at 5:17 am
Hey in the Gibson’s movie “we were soldiers” about the Nam the taxi driver actually delivers the KIA announcements. how it was in the real life, I dont know.
June 27th, 2011 at 6:09 am
At the beginning of the war before the CAP, Western Union in taxis. You can also see it in the movie “We were Soldiers”