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Young soldiers in hard places, under dreadful circumstances may perhaps be excused for poor choices in song writing. One can only wonder what our fathers and grandfathers might have been singing in camp during all the now sanitized wars we’ve come to love. I can live with the stupid cruelty of this Marine’s song, he’s no doubt seen things I haven’t, and while this whole thing makes me sad at so many levels, my greatest sorrow and deepest anger is reserved for the swine that put this young man into a place where three years along in this awful war. everyone in the country he’s here to save is still his enemy, and joke-songs about slaughtering families seem worthy of video taping.
P.S. Someday this young man (God willing) is going to come home; it will be rough justice indeed if he brings all he’s so recently learned overseas about love to the marriage bed of the daughter of someone who still thinks this war was a good idea. And they said irony was dead.
