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 Bumping. This is Saturday with what looks to be a good lineup of music and more, and the proceeds go to benefit a good cause. Stop by and say hi if you make it!

 

Spreading the word on this, as Mission: VALOR will be there in support of this cause.  Note that Madison Rising is also going to be there, along with a number of other good groups and interesting speakers.  Come on by, sit a spell at our table, and enjoy what promises to be an amazing time.  

On November 10th, our Marines will celebrate their 238th Birthday!

Go Daddy and Madison Rising created this video in tribute to the USMC and will match donations to the Semper Fi Fund/America's Fund. If you'd like to make a donation to the Semper Fi Fund, please visit https://semperfifund.org/donate-godaddy/ From November 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013, The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation and GoDaddy will match up to $1 million in donations to the Semper Fi Fund!

Remember this awesome track?

Well, Saving Abel has a new album out soon.  Here's the first one (free download here):

All I ever wanted to do was fly
Leave this world and live in the sky
I left the C130 out of Fort Worth town
I go up some days I don't wanna come down

Well I fly that plane called the Angel Flight
Come on brother you're with me tonight
Between Heaven and earth you're never alone
On the Angel Flight
Come on brother I'm taking you home

I love my family and I love this land
But tonight this flight's for another man
We do what we do because we heard the call
Some gave a little, but he gave it all

I fly that plane called the Angel Flight
Come on brother you're with me tonight
(Come on brother you're with me tonight)
Between Heaven and earth you're never alone
On the Angel Flight
Come on brother I'm taking you home
Come on brother I'm taking you home

Well the cockpit's quiet and the stars are bright.
Feels kinda like church in here tonight
It don't matter where we touch down
On the Angel Flight its sacred ground

I fly that plane called the Angel Flight
Gotta hero riding with us tonight
Between Heaven and earth you're never alone
On the Angel Flight
Come on brother I'm taking you home
Come on brother I'm taking you home
Come on brother I'm taking you home
Come on brother I'm taking you home

I've spent a few days with an SFC I know, and he took great delight in getting this stuck in my head.  Therefore, I decided to share:

 

 

Enjoy.

Over at the Air Force Times FlightLines blog, they posted up this video as an ode to something known to all who've done some time at Kandahar - The Poo Pond Song...soon to be history.  Thanks to our pal, Jeff Schogol at the AFTimes for the tip.

Somewhere in Afghanistan...(be sure to watch for the flag raising)

There are many things one can say about the Star Spangled Banner.  It is a stone b***h to play on the trumpet, at least it was when I was in high school, because of some of the jumps.  It regularly leaves performers licking their wounds as it does test them.  Especially if they are foolish enough to try to personalize it.  Like Jim at Parkway Rest Stop, I usually don't like those who try because of what they do to the song, and it does to them. 

I do think it is a proper way to start a major event, and the day. 

I also have to agree with Jim that this this version by Madison Rising is the best non-traditional version I have ever heard.  It is good, and is well worth the listen. 

Go help them hit one million views before election day. 

LW

OK, it's obviously not a recruiting video. But if the Marines promised me that Katy Perry would be my battle buddy, I'd sign up today. There is just something irresistible about a woman in a uniform with a weapon.

And what is up with "Uncle Jimbo's Sin Palace"?

Just posting this again because... it. just. kicks. ass.