Soldier's Angel

[Ghosty]

I had started to talk about this in the Underwhelmed thread, but figured it could have its own thread. About the song, and the topic.

I love her work that she does for the soldiers. Wish the song was different though.

Soldier's Angel - ehh, not loving it - yet. I like it. but it's not one of my favorites, yet. As usual, she is taking a huge, historical, major tragedy and writing not so much about IT, but about herself in the midst of it. Which is fine, but in this case I really wish she had made it their song, not hers. The word "I" is used way to much to make it not sound self-absorbed (I hate to say, because stevie is such a caring person, but it's just how it comes off sounding, imo). I know she was uplifting, comforting, inspiring for the soldiers she visited and wrote to, but she said she listened to them and they told her their story. I am sure there was a common thread linking all their unique stories. I wish she had written about that. I wish the song was really all about them and their state of mind, their experiences of war, not stevie's. We know how it effects us. Their story is what is hardly ever told. Some of her lyrics hit that (as I look upon their faces, I try to write their stories and tell them to the world, I keep the tears inside and put them down in verse, I try to push them gently into the light, no one walks away from this battle, soldiers of my heart). I want to hear what they said, what they are experiencing, how (or IF) they are healing.

I urge you all to rent RESTREPO. You can see parts on youtube, but it's something we all need to watch in its entirety. I wonder if Stevie has seen it? Here's a few bits on youtube - you need to see the whole thing, seriously - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvUdruvbdmI and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvUdruvbdmI

PLEASE rent it. It gives me an anxiety attack, it's very hard to get through.Watch it with someone, don't watch it alone. My godson was there for a year and thank God is okay, but I do worry, is he truly okay? Can anyone be okay after that. Death around you, being shot at anytime, seeing friends die, lining up stray dogs and having to kill them because they are spreading disease....heartache until your heart dies, sometimes.... 18 year old "children"...really. America's children being put through that.

I am happy my Godson was there when they closed Restrepo. And he came back home in one piece. but never the same. God bless him, and all of them.