Forum Overview :: Site Comments :: I was curious if "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" was based on someone

[quote name="Reichsminister Doktor Goebbels"]<A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_the_Headless_Thompson_Gunner>It turns out no.</A> Sure, only the introductory paragraph is related to the song, but I sure learned a lot about America's imperialistic and racist foreign policy. Somebody noticed this before me, right? [quote]Talk:Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner Regarding the Historical Perspective: You write that Zevon used some poetic license regarding the dates; I wonder if it was meant more to emphasize the "hidden" nature of some of the operations that _must_ have been going on, especially with CIA involvement. Of course, I can't prove any of that; but isn't that the point?[/quote] [/quote]