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This is the kind of video I come here for. What an amazing tale.

You could really feel how powerful the memory was for him in the way he played that song.

I seem to have gotten some dust in my eye...

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sniff... upvote

I just about know that song. Anybody?

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Over on YT, about 8 hours ago, someone suggested Lil Marleen. I could not have come up with it but I think they are correct.

>> ^calvados:

I just about know that song. Anybody?
talks

^Quite right, Chic. Lili Marleen it is!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Marleen

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Nice story ,

having said that if i was in a war zone id rather not have some guy next to me playing tunes on the trumpit.

Is there a dry eye in the house?

Didn't think so.

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This is going on my list to promote. Pure awesome.

yeah, I initially would agree; but then again, if you can remind your enemy that you're both just people, with friends and families, on a small world, well,...


>> ^westy:

Nice story ,
having said that if i was in a war zone id rather not have some guy next to me playing tunes on the trumpit.

>> ^westy:

Nice story ,
having said that if i was in a war zone id rather not have some guy next to me playing tunes on the trumpit.


You have to remember that this was WW2 and there were no thermal scopes, infrared, ect... So when it got dark it was pretty much a stalemate between sides and they would wait til dawn to resume fighting. On an off chance they would attack under the light of flares but that was few and far between. So playing music didn't necessarily expose you or your mates to enemy fire.

Guy is wearing a missile (ICBM) maintenance badge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Badge

The star on top denotes mastery, which is now given after a certain time spent in that career field.

>> ^Unsung_Hero:

>> ^westy:
Nice story ,
having said that if i was in a war zone id rather not have some guy next to me playing tunes on the trumpit.

You have to remember that this was WW2 and there were no thermal scopes, infrared, ect... So when it got dark it was pretty much a stalemate between sides and they would wait til dawn to resume fighting. On an off chance they would attack under the light of flares but that was few and far between. So playing music didn't necessarily expose you or your mates to enemy fire.


dude thay had carrots in ww2 widely known fact that carrots give you 20/20 night visoin , how do u think we bombed them crouts !

>> ^bamdrew:
yeah, I initially would agree; but then again, if you can remind your enemy that you're both just people, with friends and families, on a small world, well,...
>> ^westy:
Nice story ,
having said that if i was in a war zone id rather not have some guy next to me playing tunes on the trumpit.



“If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.”

I sure loves me some Jack Handy quotes.

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Kinda reminds me of one of my sifts from awhile back: Germans in the Woods

So it's not a VH-1 viral.

But if there would have been two snipers they would not have been lonely, and his brains would be splattered everywhere. That is the evil of human emotions and why Hitler rose in the first place.

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>> ^Lawdeedaw:

But if there would have been two snipers they would not have been lonely, and his brains would be splattered everywhere. That is the evil of human emotions and why Hitler rose in the first place.


This makes no logical sense...obviously the trumpet player was lonely despite being with his fellow troops.

Also, kraut not crout...somebody failed earlier. The Germans were so nicknamed after sauerkraut, which they ate for Vitamin C and other stuff to stave off Scurvy before frozen foods were available on ships. The Brits got their "Limey" nickname from eating limes for the same purpose. I don't know if either are used as perjoratives still or if anyone's offended or what.

And this is why war sucks... in most cases neither side really wants to be there or killing the others... it's all horrible stuff

>> ^westy:

Nice story ,
having said that if i was in a war zone id rather not have some guy next to me playing tunes on the trumpit.


You're right, in a life-threatening military situation, 'better to have a warrior by your side than an artist... but I don't think any G.I. (or any combatant from the Allied Forces) would've felt safe if the warrior had been you... You scary.

Getting back to our featured Veteran... That type of empathy... in such a crucial, emotionally-charged, nationally-sensitive time, when just a couple of weeks ago, he probably witnessed several of his brothers in arms, his friends, being killed or maimed just a few feet away... Man, it blows me away (pardon the pun).

I got tears brimming at my eyelids with this and had to forward it to my highly emotional father who is probably bawling his eyes out in Northern California right now.

What a primitive species we are. Glimmers of consciousness occur in rare instances, but the majority are not capable of even recognizing or understanding them.

I would have played "2 Legit to Quit" by MC Hammer. I'm relatively confident it would have ended the entire war.

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