Comments on: Rouge, Blanc et Bleu

By: nolagirl

nolagirl — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:15:23 +0000

Agreed on all points. Goosebumps here too.

By: morewines

morewines — Mon, 28 May 2007 16:35:52 +0000

Can’t help but remember what this day is.
A friend of mine was killed in Iraq.

By: shrewspeaks

shrewspeaks — Sat, 26 May 2007 13:41:19 +0000

MM – really touching. Really there isn’t anything more I can say…so I will bow my head and think for a moment about all the Lex’s who came before and after your Lexaand special thoughts about your Lex who was an early casualty in this war on terror.

By: leejolem

leejolem — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:49:13 +0000

I have been fortunate/blessed enough never to have lost anyone I know during military duty. The war hit close to him though last year when one of my daughter’s friends (who has hung out at our house a lot in the last 4-5 years) decided to sign-up after high school. I then started panicking about where he would be stationed, if he would be in battle, etc…. It turned out he got an honorable discharge for a health issue, but I was surprised at how your perspective changes when it’s someone you know personally at risk.

DD, thanks so much for the heartfelt post and the reminder to be grateful (and all the beautiful music).

By: Dingo

Dingo — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:15:52 +0000

I’d be remiss if I didn’t make it clear that my friend, Lex, fully believed in what he was doing.
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They usually do. They are young and full of hope and faith.

I’ll leave it at that and remember them all on memorial day.

By: Cahaba Lily

Cahaba Lily — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:04:56 +0000

What a bitter sweet memory DD. I’m verklempt.

By: music maven

music maven — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:01:05 +0000

I’d be remiss if I didn’t make it clear that my friend, Lex, fully believed in what he was doing. He nobley talked about doing a job that somebody had to do and his belief that he was, in fact, protecting our interests. I have never felt that he died in vain (nor did his parents), but I sure wish that we wouldn’t have ignored the escalation of terrorism for 20 years. If we had treated that Beirut bombing as the crime it was, we may have never had to experience 9/11. Regardless, young lives lost are really never justified.

By: Dingo

Dingo — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:26:39 +0000

I wept when I read your words DD. I wept for those who have died, those who will die and those who have broken my heart with their suffering. Im a Vietnam Era “child” and I can still remember the sight of the green Army car pulling up to my neighbor’s house with an officer and a chaplain in it. The rest is history.

I think the most powerful words you typed were these…”However, in the blink of an eye, he was gone.”

If we take nothing else from this, I hope everyone remembers how tenuous and how unpredictable life is. Never miss an opportunity to say I love you or to give an unsolicited hug or a smile.

Its shorter than you know.

And never send other people’s kids off to a war we arent willing to sacrifice our own children for.

By: manders!

manders! — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:06:58 +0000

Oh heck, D, I cry when I hear Billy Ray’s “Some Gave All”. I am as sappy as they come. I truly love my country, even with all of her faults.

Yeah, brc, Ray can send you there like no one, can’t he?

By: double d

double d — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:19:30 +0000

Yes brc, that’s Faith Hill. While I like Whitney’s version, as well, I really dig the bagpipes in this version. I have many of these kinds of songs on my iPod, ‘cuz as I said…I’m a patriotic sap. But, proud of it.

As I’ve said before, my REAL favorite version of the SSB is LSU’s Tiger Stadium filled with 95,000 fans all singing in unison. I get goosebumps every time.