Highway Of Heroes

I had to share this with you all.

I first heard this song after downloading it this morning from iTunes, and fell in love with it immediately. I challenge you to close your eyes, listen to the song and not tear up.

Simple, and yet real powerful. But, then again, I’ve seen the flags at half mast, seen the overpasses of the Highway to Heroes lined with flag waving Torontonians and fire trucks saluting the fallen boys brought home as they pass underneath … I have also driven alongside the convoy … so it kinda impacts me a lot.

I’m not going to tell you all to rush out and buy it – although the proceeds do go to the Canadian Heroes Fund, which provides scholarships for the families of fallen soldiers – but I do encourage you to listen to it.

Highway of Heroes


SJ

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Sighhh

Why do men snore when lying on their backs?
Because their balls fall over their butt holes and they vapour lock.

SJ, thanks for sharing and for reminding us another face of reality which must not be forgotten. The song managed to bring tears to my eyes. I so feel for the fallen and for those whom they leave behind. I always pray that, perhaps, some day, all this agony may cease in some way ... it's only a dream, I know, but I always pray.

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To be or not to be a gatchamaniac - that's the dilemma!

It's an incredibly beautiful and moving song, SJ - I'm crying as I write this.

Lborgia- your brother must have been a very trusted person to have been given tht role - probably the most important and yet the hardest any person in an army would have to do.

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"When I'm old, I don't want them to say of me, "She's so charming." I want them to say, "Be careful, I think she's armed." -G. Stoddart

My brother had to keep a cell phone on or near him at all times and answer it no matter what, and he got the horrible news first, but he didn't directly contact the families. I believe that's done, often in person, by local military people, often chaplains, wherever in Canada the soldiers' families live. Once that's been done, regular telephone and email communication can be started again at the base in Kandahar (a policy that's intended, I think, to make sure no one learns their spouse, child or sibling has possibly been killed or has been killed by hearing something randomly or by hearing it on the news).

Having a brother in the military has influenced the way I see Joe and the other Science Ninjas –I think of them as soldiers (albeit with non-regulation hairstyles). Sure, soldiers will sometimes grumble or complain, or express opinions to their superior officers that the orders they’ve been given are… could be improved. But, above all, they are motivated by duty, loyalty and a determination to get the job done, no matter how rotten or deadly a job it can sometimes be –they know what they signed on for. My great fear for the Gatchaman movie (when it still looked like it would get made) was that Joe would be depicted as a tattooed, smoking, leather-jacket wearing street punk/vigilante, constantly mouthing off to Ken or Dr. Nambu. I just don't see him that way at all.