A New Soldiers' Hymn By Shawn Macomber

Certain rituals are performed each time a combat patrol ventures beyond the base perimeter in Iraq: Squad leaders go over operational details. The vehicle and communications gear is checked. Weapons, locked and loaded. Final permission from command for the mission, awaited. All performed to a backing pastiche of heavy metal and aggressive rock, likely recognizable to any young man whose youth lays claim to some segment of the last two decades...or, at least, recognizable to someone with trailer park roots like mine. You've got your AC/DC, your Metallica, your Guns N' Roses. No real surprises there.

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