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Ballad of the Green Berets Barry Sandler and others.
05/26/08
I love this song. It's plaintive recognition of people willing to die for their country (and encourage their son to think similarly) is the closest to a martial virtue post-forties popular music gets.
Bonus! In Spanish too.
Andrew Sisters Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. The 1940s- When strait white men danced:
Johnny Horton and the Battle of 1812. Honoring those new Americans who fought the British in that most senseless of American wars.
Cadence, a military phenomenon I don't often miss. Shockingly un-PC.
Next week: the best anti-war songs, although you can say these are, in a way.
Tags: army songs, best military songs, top ten military songs





