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TomSlick

(11,032 posts)
Thu Aug 27, 2020, 10:31 PM Aug 2020

Gawd, I hate that song.

Trump's walk-on music tonight is Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American."

I spent 2003 at Ft. Polk, LA as National Guard and Reserve troops were processed for shipment to Iraq. At every "departure ceremony," as these soldiers were sent off to fight a war that was premised on a lie, "Proud to be an American" boomed from the loud speakers.

For me, this particular bit of patriotic claptrap is the theme song for a stupid war.

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Gawd, I hate that song. (Original Post) TomSlick Aug 2020 OP
Me too. I'd rather hear any of his other hits... dchill Aug 2020 #1
Song has it all Cirque du So-What Aug 2020 #2
LOL. I'm not even watching it and I guessed which song you meant from your headline. meadowlander Aug 2020 #3
K&R UTUSN Aug 2020 #4
Can't stand Greenwood or that gawd awful song nt LSparkle Aug 2020 #5
No other musicians want trump using their songs jimfields33 Aug 2020 #6
Trump has been free with using music contrary of the artist's desires. TomSlick Aug 2020 #7
I would never knowingly revmclaren Aug 2020 #8
I never do so willingly. TomSlick Aug 2020 #9
I always cringe when that song plays. revmclaren Aug 2020 #10
they should have played...... Celerity Aug 2020 #11
Reminds me of September 11 😥 Raine Aug 2020 #12

meadowlander

(4,358 posts)
3. LOL. I'm not even watching it and I guessed which song you meant from your headline.
Thu Aug 27, 2020, 10:38 PM
Aug 2020

I just asked myself "what song would a draft dodging con man who took help from a foreign government to cheat in his last election and looked the other way while Russia paid bounties on US troops want blasting as he walked out onto a stage surrounded by non-mask wearing, non-social distancing disease vectors"? And yep, that's the one.

Raine

(30,540 posts)
12. Reminds me of September 11 😥
Thu Aug 27, 2020, 11:17 PM
Aug 2020

it and Amazing Grace played continually on TV and radio, brings back all those memories.

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