From The Washington Post 9 Sep 05

[MalahatTwo7]

This is a small excerpt from a very long article on some folks who are soldiering in Iraq, with the 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment in BALAD, Iraq. Its a song that a couple of them wrote during one of their 'off duty' periods:

For A U.S. Platoon In Iraq, Merciless Missions

Days Are Spent Pursuing Enemy, Fending Off Death By Steve Fainaru, Washington Post Foreign Service


Lyrics of Loneliness

As the grueling month wore on, Baker, the platoon sergeant and an accomplished trumpet player, recorded his latest song about Iraq with Anthony Blocker, 27, of Marietta, Ga., another platoon sergeant in Charlie Company.

The two men used a music software program and microphone, mixing the songs on a laptop computer in a tiny wooden studio that Blocker built in his room. Baker wrote songs about the three drowned soldiers, the platoon's desolate base, the isolation of being away from family. "If it feels like I'm gonna cry a little bit, then I know it's good," he said.

Baker called this latest song, "August." Its haunting melody was set against lyrics that spoke of loneliness and resilience during endless separation:

A year long

A year gone

Is so damn long

Baby, hold on

It won't be long

Till I come home

There's been ups

There's been downs

We stay strong

Hold on

It won't be long

Till I come home

Some of the guys hi-lited in the article are from LA, and FL.

[BFDNJFF]

this is another group or rappers who made there entire cd in a homemade studio in iraq and actualy its not a bad cd if you like that kind of music.I have the CD and like it.



http://4th25.com/index.php

[MalahatTwo7]

As the psychologists will tell, music soothes even the savage beast.