I grew up listening to this song. It was so powerful and still is.I was 15 when I first heard it. 18 years later when my wife and I had our first children, we had twin girls. We called one girl Rachel and the other Simone. I played this song for my Rachel as she grew up and told her about how she got her name, and about the song, the war the times that were. My daughter is now 26 and soon to be married. Rachel told me that she looked up the song and downloaded it to her collection. Whenever I hear this song it brings tears to my eyes.