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8th of November
***11/08/07***
I reposted this today. Go here if you’d like to comment. Thanks.
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Compare THIS video to the latest Dixie Chicks video…I think I’ll stick with the real musicians (the ones that still HAVE a fan base)
Sorry about the autostart, but I can’t seem to convince it not to in Firefox, no matter what I do to the code.
****UPDATE*****
Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who’s taken the time to visit, listen to the video, and comment.
****UPDATE2*****
Please, please, go read my follow-up post, with some of the background to this wonderful song. And if you know how to capture the video I linked to there, please let me know, as I would really like to post it.
**11/08/07**
I changed the video code as the old one no longer seemed to be working.
A note from a different board:
“I went to see The Dixie Chicks last night. They were fantastic…what a show! It was a sold out concert here in my city. All of the Chicks’s Canadian dates have sold out, but I read in the paper this morning that they’ve had to cancel some of their U.S concerts. How unfortunate. I know that there’s still fall out from Natalie Maines’s comments about the president a few years back….but really!!!!! What ever happened to freedom of speech?”
John, Great that you saw the Dixie Chicks last night. If you think that the things that Natalie said while in another country as an perceived spokesperson of the US were correct then you did the correct thing. Most patriotic Americans don’t think it was appropriate. The things she said cause others to hate the US and drive others to do things against the US. It is our freedom of speech to make her pay for her actions. If she was in Viet Nam or Iraq or Iran, they would have tortured and killed her for saying things like that against her country.
Thanks, from an old 173d airborne demolition sapper.
To John,
Do you have nothing better to do than disrepect the people who fought for freedom.You arrogant little peas for brains!!!!Grow up!!!!I am not,nor never have been in the service,but I can open up a can of whoop @ss if you’d like?????
” John Swartch Says:
August 11th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
A note from a different board:
“I went to see The Dixie Chicks last night. They were fantastic…what a show! It was a sold out concert here in my city. All of the Chicks’s Canadian dates have sold out, but I read in the paper this morning that they’ve had to cancel some of their U.S concerts. How unfortunate. I know that there’s still fall out from Natalie Maines’s comments about the president a few years back….but really!!!!! What ever happened to freedom of speech?â€
”
Natalie/the ‘Chicks’ are very well experiencing the results of free speech. They’re free to say what they want and others are free to exercise their free speech by not listening.
Sorry to get you all upset. I am used to a few of the NFL boards, where you talk some trash. I ment it all in fun. I checked my CD collection, and I do have one Dixie Chicks CD from 1999, “FLY”. I proud to say that I saw Pat Tillman play some NFL football in person, I was a Arizona Cardinals season ticket holder for a few years. It was sad what happened to him.
Tears run down my cheeks as I type. Freedom is NOT free. It is paid for by the sacrifices made by those brave enough to fight for their country and the men beside them. God Bless America. Love it or leave it.
Amen Tim. I heard another great song called “A Soldier Died”.It made me cry so hard.It makes you think of the true price these soldiers pay.Thanks just isn’t enough.
Don’t forget that the right to speakout against war, whether popular or not, is what hero’s like those depicted in this song fight and die for. To condem anyone for exercising their right to free speech does not serve their memory. America “the land of the free”.
I posted something about Jessica Lynch a few weeks ago. It turns out that she is expecting sometime in January. I am sure we all wish her the best.
Land of the free yes,but disrepecting a site that is honoring them is not free speech,it’s being arrogant!!!!How can people be stupid enough to write the things John writes and justify it with free speech???It is just flat out stupidity!!!!He probably thinks he is funny,not.Maybe he’s just a little slow,and doesn’t understand the word stupid?But,maybe he has no friends to keep him preoccupied and he has to go to all of these blogs to get some attention.My last comment on the idiot!!!!!!!!
Thanks. Made my eyes leak a little bit. Reminds me how we need to be thankful for all those who’re serving now (my daughter has just finished her 8th year in the Navy) and who’ve served in the past. I’ll be damned if I’ll let our folks in the military now be treated the way we were!
And, to River Rat, welcome home, Brother.
Rob Jones
Alpha Co., 4th Bttn./47th Inf. , 9th Inf. Div., US Army My Tho, Dong Tam RVN ’68
In an attempt to explain the truth behing Big & Rich’s song I stumbled on your blog. While I don’t agree with everything on the site…that is what draws me to the site. Where else can so many citizens voice thier thoughts and opinions regardless of who they upset or offend? Only in the great U. S. of A. We are so lucky to have such giving individuals to sacrifice themselves for our freedoms…
My heartfelt thanks…from the daughter of a Veteran…
I have taken a lot of gas on this board, but I have to say that I met an old man on the bus going to the local VA Hospital. We talked a little bit, and one thing he did say is that he did appreciate the help from volunteers at the VA Hospital. If you want to show respect for the Vets of ‘Nam and the other wars, check with your local VA hospital and see what you can do. Maybe just bake some cookies. I will check myself and report.
I rented a great movie and watched it about Sophie Scholl. In 1943 she said something bad about Adolf. They cut off her head and her brother’s head and the head of a friend. The Dixie Chicks do not have it so bad. The same story is on the VHS tape, “The White Rose” Merry Christmas everyone!!!
In Flanders’ fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our places: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders’ fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high,
If you break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders’ Fields.
John McCare, 1915
I want to start by thanking you for this information. I am also an Air Force Vet and had the misfortune of being at the morgue in Dover for a little while during my 8 years of service.
When I first herad this song all I could do was cry. Prior to hearing this song there was only one other song that I had heard about the effects of war that brought tears to my eyes and that was I Cant Write Left Handed by Bill Withers. It was written about Viet Nam , but it applies so much to Iraq. Its about an amputee. What really saddens me is that LAWRENCE JOEL the medic was also in the merchant marines at the close of ww2 and those guys get no love.They fought and died like everyone else in WW2. If you look at the time in which this battle was fought and the climate of the country.It is remarkable that he was able to keep his focus and do his job. The fact that he is the first living black man to get the CMH is disgraceful. I applaud Big and Rich for telling the story. Without getting very political
I have far more anger for hanoi jane and Haroldo Riviera than the dixie chicks. What haroldo did was treasonous, and the fact that he wasnt dealt with sickens me. The dixie chicks just had a different point of view. That keeps the non warriers honest. Contrary to popular belief, there are no VETS that are pro war. We hate war because we have seen it up close and personal. Fortunatly the average person has never had to see it. I dont know of any combat vet who would not trade places with the kids to spare them the horrors of war.
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Nearly two years after that “investigation,” we finally learn
Pat Tillman was shot three times, in close proximity, in
the forehead, with an M-16 from merely 10 yards
away–execution style. And that Army attorneys
bragged in emails that they had shut down any
real investigation. And that a three-star Army General
“did not recall”–70 times–his actions on that day.
Great song 8th of November and for the classics Rudyard Kipling stated it well in the following poem:
Tommy
I went into a public-’ouse to get a pint o’beer,
The publican ‘e up an’ sez, “We serve no red-coats here.”
The girls be’ind the bar they laughed an’ giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an’ to myself sez I:
O it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, go away”;
But it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins,” when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it’s “Thank you, Mr. Atkins,” when the band begins to play.
I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but ‘adn’t none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-’alls,
But when it comes to fightin’, Lord! they’ll shove me in the stalls!
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, wait outside”;
But it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide,
The troopship’s on the tide, my boys, the troopship’s on the tide,
O it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide.
Yes, makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an’ they’re starvation cheap;
An’ hustlin’ drunken soldiers when they’re goin’ large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin’ in full kit.
Then it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy how’s yer soul?”
But it’s “Thin red line of ‘eroes” when the drums begin to roll,
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it’s “Thin red line of ‘eroes” when the drums begin to roll.
We aren’t no thin red ‘eroes, nor we aren’t no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An’ if sometimes our conduck isn’t all your fancy paints:
Why, single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints;
While it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, fall be’ind,”
But it’s “Please to walk in front, sir,” when there’s trouble in the wind,
There’s trouble in the wind, my boys, there’s trouble in the wind,
O it’s “Please to walk in front, sir,” when there’s trouble in the wind.
You talk o’ better food for us, an’ schools, an’ fires an’ all:
We’ll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don’t mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow’s Uniform is not the soldier-man’s disgrace.
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country,” when the guns begin to shoot;
An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
But Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool – you bet that Tommy sees!
My Thanks to all the Vets who served so others could live free “salute”
SSgt USAF (RET)
B/2/503rd PIR 173rd Abn Bde Nov 67- Feb 68
173rd Sig Co Feb 68 – Nov 68
AATW
This was wonderful my husband served in Vietnam Jan 69 to Jan 70 he died 2 1/2 years ago from bile duct cancer cause from the Vietnam War this war was and still taking the lives of our men. I want to thank all the past and present veterns and may God Bless you All
VERE GOOD
Just surfed in from TWS site and wanted to say hello. Nice tribute all our Brothers
“Freedom is not Free”
We will never forget
Semper Fi
My late husband was in nam and we belong to one of the biggest Vietnam Veterns groups (Howard County Vietnam Vets) I am very proud of our past, present and fucher vets. I just want to say what is always said among our group WELCOME HOME BROTHERS and now SISTERS