I've never 'got'

Didn't know the song by name, but obviously recognised the tune. I was going to make a sarcy comment. Then I read this:

As an infantry soldier in Vietnam (1970), I had a battery operated cassette player and Glen Campell's cassette with this song on it. So many evenings after foxholes were dug and fighting positions readied, this is the song that brought a bit of home to us as we'd watch the sun go down hoping to survive the night to see that sun again and play Campbell's song yet once again.

Overall I think there's just an inherent melodic peacefulness that really resonates from it. idk how old you are, but for me it's a like a Moby song - one that you've already heard somewhere else, so I never experienced what it might have been like to hear properly for the first time.