Posted on Apr 14, 2016

After Our National Anthem, do you have a fav song that chokes you up, gets your heart or gets you pumped?

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There have been many a song penned by many a writer. I cannot listen to Our National Anthem without a silent tear escaping. I mostly listen to country, but "Silver Wings" has always been among my favorites, RIP Merle: you gave us all you had. Johnny Cash "This Ragged Flag" speaks for itself. Who hasn't heard "Green Berets" and been moved? Newer is David Ball's "Private Malone."There are plenty more but at the moment I have a bit of brain fog so I am asking you. Any decade, any genre. If you have a reason, include it. Some days I just want to get lost in the music. Music Heals.

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CPT Chris Loomis

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1. Army Strong
2. Scotland the Brave (bagpipes)

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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

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I've always had a thing for Bagpipes, Had a Bubblehead (Submariner) that when he was home in port would march around the Softball field at COMSUBPAC playing his Bagpipe. Neat to wake up to,

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Hi, Major Patterson.

Everything comes to a dead stop during Taps or the Star-Spangled Banner.

When I was at MEPS, the jukebox in the hotel bar was playing Dreams by Van Halen. That always had a special place in my heart.

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Maj Kim Patterson You have good taste in music, ma'am.

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Maj Kim Patterson

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Thank you. If you like my selections, I can guess that you have good taste also

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SFC Guy Machel

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"Hymn to the Fallen" by John Williams

In honor of the soldiers who give us the freedoms we have today. American Cemeteries around the world and the number of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice...

This one always got to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omd9_FJnerY

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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen

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Born in the USA has done me in ever since it was played over & over before the outbrief for an ORI which our SAC wing had performed exceptionally well in. Can't help but get nostalgic whenever I hear it now.

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Well, I may get chastised for saying this, but I've never gotten openly emotional over our National Anthem. Singing God Bless America in a spontaneous gathering of everyday citizens on some city street corner sure has. But Taps has always done it for me. I've served in scores upon scores of Honor Guards at military, fire, and police funerals. I've presented the folded U.S. Flag to surviving widows or children, and that one sentence phrase I recite as I do just grabs me by the throat. It's always been a proud, but tough honor to perform deadpan.

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Maj Kim Patterson

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Thank you for performing the tremendous honor for the families of the fallen. My dad gave 32 years and he was pretty tight lipped about the atrocities he'd experienced. For his funeral, he got a tape recorder of "Taps." My aunt was a commissioned nurse in the Pacific in WWII and received nothing when she passed last year.

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Maj Kim Patterson - You're keeping a great family tradition going, Kim. I'm sure the whole clan is proud of you. Pssssst, not a fan of canned music!!!

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SPC David Hannaman

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Maybe I'm just an adrenaline junkie...

Ride of the Valkyries - Richard Wagner
Bodies - Drowning pool
Disposable Hero's - Metallica
Kinkin' it In the Sticks - Brantley Gilbert
Somebody that I used to Know - Goyte
Born to Rise - Red Light Kings
Peace Sells - Megadeth
Pissed off and Mad About it - Texas Hippie Coalition
A Warriors Call - Volbeat
Bad Company - Five Finger Death Punch
We are Young - Fun
Over and Under it - Five Finger Death Punch
Wrong side of Heaven - Five Finger Death Punch
The Sound of Silence - Disturbed
Perfect Imperfection - Kevin Gates
9th Symphony - Beethoven
Bawitdaba - Kid Rock
Hurt - Cash

...Need I go on? (About the only music I don't care for is "teeny bopper pop" and "Tear in my Beer" country.

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Maj Kim Patterson

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I've listens to several of these prior to asking this question and sometimes, loud and strong is what we need

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Sgt Jay Jones

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"Taps" performed in Arlington National Cemetery (summer and winter)

The buglers of The United States Army Band "Pershing's Own" perform over 5000 missions a year in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA. Featured here ...

Taps.
https://youtu.be/Bfe4TxvUOiw

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