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July 2002
Posts: 280
Location: Waterloo, IL | While I was over in the Persian Gulf earlier this year with a load of Marines on the ship we had several Marines with Ovations onboard. They took them along in their trucks when they hit the beach to head into Iraq. When we returned stateside we brought the Marines, guitars and all, back to the states with us. |
Joined:
May 2002
Posts: 3005
Location: Las Cruces, NM | Maybe there is a chance for a compny to support our troops with a few guitars without worrying about whether they were going to get "recognized", that private that gets blown away doesn't get much recognition but if he can get his hands on a guitar when he's not out there risking his life, he might find a few minutes of relaxation that only a guitar will bring. If you want to help the troops, help the grunts, not the Colonel looking for career enhancement, he doesn't have to expose his "career" body to gunfire, he leaves that up to the grunts who were too damn dumb to get sent to college by their wealthy daddy and therefore get a commission gauranteeing that if you survive being a platoon leader you can survive and prosper (and only the Marine Platoon leaders don't survive, a great percentage of Army ones go on to stellar careers, while the grunts they commanded come home in body bags), The grunt chances are to expose his body over and over and, if he survives, go home to friends who say, "How was your vacation in Iraq, we saw Colonel so and so playing an Ovation on TV, I guess it was a lot of fun with those guitar companies giving you free guitars while you sat around jamming in those safe mess tents. Bull shit, don't try to tell me you weren't in a safe mess tent, I saw it on TV"
Bailey |
Music for troops
