FReeper Canteen - Memorial Day Weekend

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Tunes For The Troops

This weekend we honor all who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to America..

A heartfelt thank you to all who serve!!

This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families!

Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays have provided throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops.

All music is removed on Monday. Please Contact Kathy in Alaska or AZamericonnie to be added or removed from the music ping list.
Thanks to all the DeeJay's for their time & effort providing entertainment for the Troops!

*Canteen Mission Statement*

Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

Echo Taps	Semper Fidelis March
The Sun Harbor's Chorus -The Halls of Montezuma	U.S. Army Band - A Hero for Today
U.S. Army Band - Duty, Honor, Country	U.S. Army Band - Heroic Fanfare
U.S. Army Band - Hymn to the Fallen {From Saving Private Ryan}	U.S. Army Band - National Anthem
U.S. Army Band - The Armed Services Medley	U.S. Army Band - The Last Full Measure of Devotion
U.S. Army Band - This Is My Country	U.S. Army Band - We Were There
U.S. Army Field Band & Soldiers Chorus - God Bless the USA	U.S. Navy Sea Chanters - Eternal Father
United States Air Force Band - Battle Hymn of the Republic	United States Air Force Band - God Bless America
United States Air Force Band - Lord Guard and Guide	United States Air Force Band - The Higher We Fly
United States Coast Guard Tribute Semper Paratus	United States Marine Band - God Our Fathers
United States Marine Band - The Stars and Stripes Forever	United States Navy Band - Amazing Grace
United States Navy Band - America the Beautiful	United States Navy Band - Liberty Fanfare
US Air Force Song - Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder	US Army Song - The Army Goes Rolling Along
US Navy Band -Anchors Aweigh	West Point March

Aaron Tippin - Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly	Aaron Tippin - You've Got To Stand For Something
Alabama - Born Country	Alabama - Down Home
America - Tennessee Ernie Ford	America The Beautiful (Live) - Ronnie Milsap
Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Tennessee Ernie Ford	Big And Rich - 8Th Of November
Billy Gilman - There's a Hero	Billy Ray Cyrus - Some Gave All
Blackhawk - Days Of America	Brooks & Dunn - 'Til My Dyin' Day
Bruce Robinson - Travelin' Soldier	Buddy Jewell - Sweet Southern Comfort
Carolyn Dawn Johnson - Some Mother's Son	Charlie Daniels - Let Freedom Ring
Charlie Daniels Band - In America	Charlie Daniels Band - This Ain't No Rag, It's A Flag
Charlie Rich - America the Beautiful	Chely Wright - The Bumber Of My Suv
Charlie Daniels Band - My Beautiful America	Darryl Worley - Have You Forgotten
Dave Matthews Johnny Cash - For You	David Ball - Riding With Private Malone
Diamond Rio - One More Day	Due South - Joey and Laura
Dusty Drake - One Last Time	Elvis Presley - America The Beautiful [Live]
Five for Fighting - The Beautiful	Garth Brooks - Belleau Wood
Garth Brooks - We Shall Be Free	Montgomery Gentry - Tattoos and Scars
God Bless America (Live At Carnegie Hall) - Kate Smith	God Bless The U.S.A. - Lee Greenwood
Gretchen Wilson - Politically Uncorrect	Hank Williams Jr - Mr. Lincoln
Hank Williams Jr. - A Country Boy Can Survive	Hank Williams, Jr. - America Will Survive
India.Arie - Good Man	Jars of Clay - The Widowing Field
John Conlee - They Also Serve	John Michael Montgomery - Letters From Home
John Wayne America - Why I Love Her	Johnny Cash - The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
Johnny Cash Marty Robbins - Song of the Patriot	Johnny Cash - Ragged Old Flag
Willie Nelson - Living In The Promiseland	Katherine Jenkins - Hymn To The Fallen
Keni Thomas - Flags of Our Fathers	Keni Thomas - Hero
Keni Thomas - Not Me	Kenny Rogers - Homeland
Kenny Rogers - Long Arm Of The Law	Joseph Rizza MacKenzie, Joseph Kilna - Sgt. MacKenzie
LeAnn Rimes - God Bless America	Lee Greenwood - God Bless The U.S.A.
Lonestar - I'm Already There	Lonestar - My Front Porch Looking In
Lonestar - Somebody's Someone	Martina McBride - Blessed
Martina McBride - God Bless America	Mary Chapin Carpenter - My Dear Old Friend
Michael MacDonald & Jamie O'Neil - Not So Distant Day	Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee
Merle Haggard - The Fightin' Side of Me	Montgomery Gentry - Didn't I
Montgomery Gentry - My Town	Montgomery Gentry - You Do Your Thing
Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Battle Hymn Of The Republic	Neal McCoy - I'm Your Biggest Fan
Neal McCoy - The Last Of A Dying Breed	Oak Ridge Boys - American Made
The Mansions of the Lord (Suite)	Phil Vassar - American Child
Michael MacDonald - This Is God	Ralph Stanley II - Are You Proud Of America
Randy Travis - America Will Always Stand	Randy Travis - Heroes & Friends
Rascal Flatts - The Glory of Life	Ray Charles - America The Beautiful
Ricochet - The Star Spangled Banner	Sgt. Barry Sadler - Ballad of the Green Berets
Shooter Jennings - 4th Of July	Stars And Stripes Forever - Victory Military Band
Steven Curtis Chapman - Soldier	Sugarland - Everyday America
Tammy Cochran - I Believe	Taps history told by John Wayne
The Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy	The Charlie Daniels Band - This Ain't No Rag, It's A Flag
The Star-Spangled Banner (Live At Carnegie Hall) - Bill Gaither Presents The Isaacs	The Warren Brothers - Hey Mr. President
This Land Is Your Land - Lee Greenwood	Toby Keith - courtesy of the red, white and blue (the angry american)
Toby Keith - live introduction by Toby of courtesy of the red, white, and blue (the angry american)	Trace Adkins - Arlington
Tracy Byrd - I'm From The Country	Tracy Lawrence - If I Don't Make It Back
Tracy Lawrence - If The World Had A Front Porch	Travis Tritt - What Say You
Waylon Jennings - America	Waylon Jennings - The Eagle
Willie Nelson - Living In The Promiseland	Your A Grand Old Flag - The Broadway Parade

REST IN PEACE, FALLEN BROTHER!

Drummer Lee Rigby
2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
KIA London 22 May 2013

RULE BRITANNIA
HM Royal Marines
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I have fought a good fight,
I have finished my course,
I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:7 (KJV)

"Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict;
For it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.
As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be."
(1 Maccabees 3:58–60)

Flowers of the Forest
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
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Black Watch Piper

THE SOLDIER
Sub-Lt. Rupert Brooke, Royal Navy

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Last Post
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"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

~ Memorial Day Weekend Tunes For Our Troops! ~

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Says Goodbye To A Legend

Trevor Bolder was the bassist, songwriter and record producer best known for his long association with Uriah Heep and his role with David Bowie's iconic Spiders from Mars. Although not a founding member of Uriah Heep, Trevor performed on more than twenty Heep albums (producing many) since 1976 when he replaced John Wetton. Previously he had played bass on five David Bowie albums (including Hunky Dory, The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and Changes. His resume included four solo albums with fellow Spider Mick Ronson, Two with Heepster Ken Hensley, albums with the Cybernauts, Dana Gillespie and an album and three year touring stint with British rockers Wishbone Ash.

Hardly a household name, he was obscured by the mammoth talents he supported over five decades. Bolder died this week from pancreatic cancer. He'll be missed.

Ziggy Stardust
~ David Bowie ~

MEMORIAL DAY: MUSIC OF THE CIVIL WAR

Whether you call it the Civil War, the War of the Rebellion, the War Between the States, the War for Southern Independence, or the War of Northern Aggression, that cataclysmic event created the holiday first known as Decoration Day.

There were times during the conflict when women decorated the graves of deceased soldiers in Virginia, Georgia and Pennsylvania in an organized manner. But the first real Decoration Day occurred in 1865 in Charleston, South Carolina. Union prisoners of war had been interned at the Charleston Race Course, and many had been interred there also. On May 1, 1865, a group of white teachers, white missionaries, black ministers and freed blacks cleaned up the graves, landscaped the grounds and built a ceremonial arch for the fallen. Today that location is known as Hampton Park. On May 30, 1868, similar ceremonies were observed in the North. This spread, and by 1870, the establishment of 73 national cemeteries turned Decoration Day into a political and religious event.

In 1967, federal law turned Decoration Day into Memorial Day, and in 1971 the current three-day weekend custom replaced May 30.

Music was a constant during the Late Unpleasantness Between the States. It was played at the camps, during the battles and at home. When Gen. George Pickett started his famous charge at Gettysburg, Confederate military bands played martial airs as his troops started the mile long trek across the fields to Gen. George Meade’s Union troops. (My instructor at Fort Gordon in 1971 referred to Pickett’s group as a “brigade gaggle”.) As they straggled back to the Confederate lines, the same bands played “Nearer My God to Thee”, an Anglican Low Church hymn.

Each side in that conflict had its own tunes and anthems. There were also popular songs of the day, sung in both camps, most of which were written by Stephen Foster whom I profiled several months ago.

First, I’d like to start with a piece that is modern. It was written by Jay Ungar in 1982 and has the melancholy sound of the Scots-Irish ballads of the era. It’s best known as the theme from Ken Burns’ documentary “The Civil War”. Pull out your handkerchief for this one.

Jay Ungar, Molly Mason & the Family Band: “Ashokan Farewell”

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