"Dave Blandston" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I've always assumed the song was about the
> Vietnam war, so the camo doesn't match the type that probably would have been in
> use under those circumstances ("Tiger stripe,") but since there's no specific
> reference to which war the song is about I fudged for artistic preference.

The song is about the Spanish civil war, see [1]. I actually read the book by
Hemingway ages ago just because it happened to have the same title as the
Metallica song that I really liked. Then I got to the chapter on which Metallica
based their lyrics, and I realized it wasn't just coincidence :-)

Erwin

[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls#References_in_popular_culture

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