Fortunately, the majority of Americans feel the way you do. Unfortunately, the media is intent on just showing those who do not understand from where our freedoms come. I partly blame our education system for this attitude toward our amazing country. I hope these malcontents will someday understand that a lot of women and men are dead to protect their right to protest. Thank you for your outspoken support for America. I pray you can become a citizen very soon.
As a sister of a vet, you are correct, media and education system have got people in this country hating this country and in doing so spitting on those that lost their lives for this country. It also comes back to our representatives. George Washington and the founders cared about the people our representatives now only care about how much money they can make
Sir, you are already more American, than a lot of people born here. Thank you for standing for Truth and right! God Bless your ability to speak to us all! You are spot on friend!
This song tells the story of my grandfather. He left port in California in the last part of 1943. In the early part of 1944, his ship was hit by a Japanese torpedo, and he was killed instantly, leaving behind my grandmother and his son, my dad, whom he had never met. I have my grandfather's purple heart sitting on a shelf in my living room.
And see that's what being an American is! It's not so much as a country as it is a belief! If u believe in God given rites and are willing to fight for those rights then u are American at heart!
My late husband spent 20 years in the Air Force. He joined in 1968. Thank God he made it home from Vietnam. Thank God your son is still safe. My prayers are with your grandson.
I really love how much you love my country. I was active Army and have lost friends from both enemies or later at home by thier own hand. Losing someone is hard but losing someone who fought for our freedoms hurts so much.
God bless your son and your family. ❤❤💙🇺🇲 Thank you for his service and yours❤ so many people forget the family serves as well as their son/daughter who are protecting our freedom. Many blessings.
Thank you for your service. My father was a WWII army veteran. He was at the airports to welcome you all home from Vietnam, in uniform.. Our family was disgusted by how you were treated. As he waited, he was yelled at, spit on, etc. He refused to let you all come home without someone there to welcome you. Many blessings 🇺🇲💙
@@Ripley1994 Yes I remember being the first off the American Airlines Flight From Kadena Air Base on Okinawa into Norton Air Base in Calif and getting spit on and screamed at that I was a Baby Killer.
A very moving song, thanks to all the heroes that has given me my freedom and to the heroes that are still giving me my freedom still today,may God bless all the heroes and there families 🙏 love from West Virginia ♥️🙂
Don’t forget the roots of our heart, the strength we were given. We have always loved the Red, White,And Blue of our heritage. We may have changed St. Andrew’s Cross, for a field of stars, but remember, brothers grow under the Red, White, and Blue.
It is the highest level of love on so mant grounds. They in my country are disrepecting all our first responders. Our men and women are not appreciated. The prayers who go up for my beautiful country.
I had a hard time writing my to be opened upon my death letter when I served. I am thankful for those who served and especially those who gave all. Thanks for your reaction to this and so many of your reactions
You are such a sweetheart, Darlin'! Thank ya so much for reacting to this. It surely does pull at your heartstrings as it reminds us all of the sacrifices given for our freedom.
My late husband Virgil Leon Wood was a USMC '67 - '71 honorably discharged. Passed away 12/31/2019. He believed in God Country and Family. I miss him God Bless you
This kills me everytime my dad will be buried at Arlington USAF Vietnam veteran Korat Thailand 73 and almost my entire has fought and some died for this country. 😢❤️🇺🇲❤️
Thank you young man. As an American, I had to lay my father down in that open field on the edge of town so he could drink beer for all eternity with his fellow Marines. Thank you for your love & respect for soldiers everywhere. God Bless.
Wonderful reaction! You should react to The 8th of November by Big and Rich- very powerful and moving! I saw them sing it in concert and they brought the man on the stage that they wrote the song about to honor him! Beautiful and patriotic! For a fun song by Big N Rich- Save a Horse Ride A Cowboy
So well said. One thing that always comes back to me, all those people are volunteers. They basically signed away their free choice for their term of service. That in itself takes a certain amount of bravery, patriotism and sense of duty. It is a huge thing we all should remember, and honor.
You are a remarkable reactor. I appreciate your being unafraid to express the emotions the songs, such as this one, bring up. My husband was a soldier. He passed away 5 years ago next month. Our son flies the flag out in our yard on his dad's birthday, the anniversary of the day he died, Memorial Day, the 4th of July, and Veterans' Day. When he was deployed in 1970, I missed him so much, and when he came home, I was super glad.
Hello again from Dallas. I’ve heard that song at least a hundred times and it still makes me cry. There is another soldier song that is not quite as sad, but poignant just the same. It’s called Riding With Private Malone by David Ball. It has an interesting twist to it.
I love your sincere, heartfelt reactions and I totally agree with your sentiments on many issues. I hope you and your family have a wonderful life here in the USA,, ❤️🙏
When he did this song live at the ACM awards, this is actually that recording but without seeing the visuals of him sitting alone on the stage, then at the end, they bring the lights up behind him and there are gold star families there (simple explanation of gold star family...if you have someone serving, you can hang a blue star flag in your window, if they didn't make it home, you change it from blue to gold), it hits hard but different if that makes sense.... yeah, you said in the title "I nearly cried".... well I have no problem admitting I do with the first note... yeah... have yet to ever get all the way through this song without tears flowing... this and "Arlington" by Trace Adkins, "Come Home Soon" by SHeDAISY... and a few others...major tissue time!
Thank you for your reaction! I am a former Army attack helicopter pilot with combat experience who has lost friends in the service of this country. I can’t watch this video without weeping…
Thank you for your reaction, very hard to hear this and not cry....Thank you to all our HEROES for serving our country and the ultimate sacrifice 🙏 🇺🇲❤️
This broke my heart the first time I heard and all these years later it’s still breaking my heart, I’m rediscovering so many songs I haven’t heard for a while as you journey through TK and other artists so thank you!! I hadn’t heard the taliban song for years!
Medically retired Navy Corpsman here, I really appreciate your reaction to this video. You are someone that I would love to see immigrate here to the US. Sadly or happily depending on the point of view, you are more patriotic than a great many Americans.
Many of my family members have served in the military beginning with my great grandfather who joined the Union army in 1862 during the civil war. My Dad served in WWII, my brothers in Vietnam, my first husband in Germany, my second husband (Air Force. All the rest were army) and my son here in the USA. Thank the Good Lord none were lost in battle. This song brought tears to my eyes. I cannot imagine the pain of those who lost loved ones like this.
28-year military service here with action in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Beirut, Grenada and Desert Storm. We have all been touch by the death of a brother or sister in arms. Listening to this song, my tears flowed right alongside yours. We have sadness for losing a fellow soldier. A soldier dies and it acts as a mirror for us to look deeper inside ourselves. We bear our scars, fight our demons and have memories that we will take to the grave. My 12-year-old grandson asked me if I was a hero. I told him no, but I served with a whole bunch of them. I was one of the lucky ones that made it home, but I still have the memories of those 18-, 19- and 20-year-old friends whom I saw take their last breathes on the battlefield. The depth of those sacrifices can never be understood by anyone who has never stood on a battlefield. But I guess it doesn't really matter if we are understood by those not in the military, as long as we come closer to understanding ourselves. Just don't scoff at those of us vets with tears flowing down our faces in front of the Vietnam memorial as we slowly touch a name engraved in the granite. God bless our troops and God bless America!!!
I love to know there are people who support our military and freedoms. Those who do not support, who protest, and who bad mouth need to realize that in some places they would disappear or be imprisoned in places where they would have no rights. Those fighting give them the freedom to oppose and speak their mind. As we all learned in grade school, "I disagree with what you say, but I will fight until death for your right to say it"
MANY of us who served in war, Myself included wrote one of these letters, and handed it to a trusted brother to mail home for us, after we left the warzone, I retrieved my letter to my family and burned it without opening it and reading what I had written for my family to read in the event of my death in combat, I also held the letters for 5 of my brothers in arms, and was thrilled that I was able to hand their letters back to them instead of having to mail them for them, this tradition is important for an American fighting man and woman, and their families, that their loved one gets to tell their families one last time, how they felt before they died fighting for our country.
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If you don't get emotional listening to this, there is something wrong with you. I never heard it before. Thanks for sharing. My husband was in the military for over 20 years including serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Korea. Thank God we never had to receive such a letter.
As the mom of a US Navy sailor, I wish that more Americans felt the way you do. Fortunately, most Americans do, but there are some who make me so angry with the way they treat our military, but, my son tells me not to let it bother me. He says "mom, I serve so that they have the right to feel the way they do". Thank you for your support of the armed forces from both of our countries
I haven't confirmed this before writing this comment, but I recall a reporter once remarked to President Abraham Lincoln (God rest his soul) in the midst of the American Civil War that he hoped God was on the side of the Union, to which President Lincoln replied, "oh no, let us hope we're on God's side." I'm grateful to have served for 30 years in the United States Air Force, and in my first two years I served as a funeral detail officer rendering military honors for deceased veterans, and it was an amazing experience. But, if we're not on God's side, then let us perish.
You don’t need to be American to understand the meaning behind this song. Any patriot would know how much our beloved soldiers sacrifice for our safety. God bless humanity and end senseless wars ❤
i wrote that letter and made it back and to the credit of the women i was with delt with the truama it made she still stuck by me she held me down at night for 2 years because of my lash outs, and 24 years this may is still at my side we as a people can do this and get through this, if we want too
I love this song but try to avoid it. It wrecks me every time. You kept it together better than I did the first time. Great reaction. Don't forget your fellow British armed forces. They are valiant too.
No one comes home from war. I saw combat on two continents and will say the person who came back was not the same as the person who left. For years, and still on some really bad days over 30 years later, I still think those who came home in a box were the lucky ones. But brothers and sisters, it does get easier; just don't give in to the 22-a-day.
I can say this many of my family was military and cop's I was not but if it ever happens on our great land I and many other's like me would pick up our gun's and do what we need to.
