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Songs That Make This Sergeant Cry

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Songs That Make This Sergeant Cry

Yeah I cry! So what?!? Shut up!

from JoeUser Forums

      While I often like to pretend that I am physically incapable of strong emotion, it is simply not true. These songs will reduce me to tears while I am stone-cold sober (even more so after a drink or two) :

 

Toby Keith :                           American Soldier

                                           Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue

Lee Greenwoood :                   God Bless the USA

Rush :                                   Tom Saywer (due to the death of a friend)

Alan Jackson :                        Where were you? (9/11 tribute song)

SSG Barry Sadler:                      Silver Wings

 

What songs reduce you to tears? Or what movies? I know the Delta characters in BlackHawk Down make me cry due to a feeling of inadequacy. (note to the Department of the Army: Please raise my RCP to 20 years! I want to *stay*! Hell raise it to 40! I would stay that long too! )

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
There is this 70's Christmas show that is awful (not sure if they even still play it).  I don't even remember what the whole story was or what it was called (I think it's something like "Nestor the Christmas Donkey or something")  Anyway, it starts out with him and his mother leaving a stable.  They can't find shelter, so the Mom lays over him to keep him warm from the snow.  He gets up in the morning, but his Mom is dead.  I hate that show so much! 
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top

He gets up in the morning, but his Mom is dead.

This is a Christmas show?

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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
I just heard another song that I'd forgotten about: Concrete Angel, by Martina McBride....there are just TOO many songs that make me cry, I think!!
Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
He gets up in the morning, but his Mom is dead.  I hate that show so much! 


Oh, I remember that. Could have did without remembering that!

"Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977)"

It's one of those Rankin/Bass stop motion things like Rudolph and Little Drummer Boy. Nestor eventually carries Mary into Bethlehem.

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Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Deliver us" Played in the opening sequence in the Dreamworks film "Prince of Egypt" (gets me every time)
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top
I would not have thought of that one!
Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top
Wait. So, you want to stay now? Knowing that they can't get rid of that code? I was talking to some of the Rockers in the NCO Lounge this afternoon, and had told them about the story of your "stay-right-where-the-fuck-you-are" code. Then SSG Unintelligible came in and said, "What?" So, we explained they had put a hex on you to keep you here.)

Obligatory On-Topic material: I used to listen to the Hindu Love Gods song (cover?) "Pale Blue Eyes" when I was depressed, and cry. Oddly, she didn't have blue eyes, they were brown.
Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top
Obligatory On-Topic material: I used to listen to the Hindu Love Gods song (cover?) "Pale Blue Eyes" when I was depressed, and cry. Oddly, she didn't have blue eyes, they were brown.


"Don't it make my brown eyes blue"
Reply #34 from JoeUser Forums Top

"Don't it make my brown eyes blue"

CS - You have to put in *rim shot* when you trot out one of those

Reply #35 from JoeUser Forums Top

So, you want to stay now?

If they could lift the code, not promote me, and station me with the Lass? yeah I would stay in. Not likely to happens in this universe though.

Reply #36 from JoeUser Forums Top
grey - And by rim shot you mean...

grey - I'd reenlist if they gave me a pony. No, wait, that was bills. I just wanted to PCS. Silly me. (It's not a song, but my reenlistment contract sometimes makes me cry.)
Reply #37 from JoeUser Forums Top
There was a song on the radio yesterday that made me cry - something about Letters from War - how a mother writes to her son while he's at war and tells him to come home safe and years later a Captain or Sergeant -- someone high up is standing in the place were her boy once was and said Mom I've come home - or something like that and he has all her letters with him.
It made me cry.

Oh I just found it - Mark Schultz Letters from War.

She runs to the mailbox
On that bright summers day
Found a letter from her son
In a war far away

He spoke of the weather
And good friends that he'd made
Said I'd been thinking 'bout dad
And the life that he had
Thats why I'm here today
And that the end he said
You are what I'm fighting for
It was the first of the letters from war

She started writing
(Chorus)
Your good and your brave
What a father that you'll be someday
Bring him home
Bring him safe

She wrote everynight as she prayed

Late in December
A day she'll not forget
Oh her tears stained the paper
With every word that she read

It said I was up on a hill
I was out there alone
When the shots all rang out
And bombs were exploding
And thats when I saw him
He came back to me
And though he was captured
A man set me free
And that man was your son

He asked me to write to you
I told him i would oh I swore
It was the last of the letters from war

And she prayed he was living
Kept on believing and wrote every night just to say

(Chorus)

Then two years later
Autumn leaves all around
A car pulled in the driveway
And she fell to the ground
And out stepped a captain
Where her boy used to stand

Said mom I'm following orders
From all of your letters
And I've come home again
He ran into hold her
And dropped all his bags on the floor
Holding all of her letters from war

Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home