I grew up in Venezuela, ages 3 to 7. We had Armed services radio but no TV. Every morning they started the day with the National Anthem, then the Army, Navy, and Marine songs, then God Bless America, then the Pledge of Allegiance. The station went off the air at about 8 or 9 PM and the close of the radio day was the same.
We were not a military family, but an Oil Company Family, but we knew every one of those songs by heart and when we moved back to the states, we were in shock that the radio stations did not have all the songs we recognized twice a day. Too bad, it would do this Nation good to hear those songs twice daily, IMHO, of course.
Bless you! What a wonderful memory that must be. Tears come to my eyes when I recite the Pledge of Allegiance, so you can imagine what the military songs do to me...I do not believe there is anything glamorous or beautiful about war, so the men who take up that grim task so far from comforts of home and comforts of love in defense of our nation--so our children can sleep in peace--have all my admiration, including those in my own family.