This country has no higher honor than the United States Army Field Band playing it at your funeral. No medal, certificate, nor anything else comes close. Because that line alone *is* America. Or at least America, as it ought to be
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Knowing that it (probably?) grew out of a song honoring John Brown makes it go hard on another level.
jul 13, 2025, 4:24 am • 6 0 • view
Indeed. I’ll take Morehouse College too.
jul 13, 2025, 3:55 am • 70 4 • view
jul 13, 2025, 4:16 am • 24 0 • view
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir IMO performs it better than anyone else, tho still, while they are incredible, the United States Field Army Band or the US Marine Corps Band still command the higher national honor to perform it www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAqN...
jul 13, 2025, 4:03 am • 31 1 • view
It’s a good rendition. And agree about the military bands. While they only do three verses, when the Morehouse choir sings “as he died to make men holy let us die to make men free” — at Jimmy Carter’s funeral, the Morehouse men, in remebrance of Carter’s life— that’s a moment.
jul 13, 2025, 4:13 am • 29 2 • view
Like seriously listen to this. May everyone live their lives worthy of these people being dispatched to honor what sacrifice those lyrics call on everyone to pay towards the generations that follow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy6A...
jul 13, 2025, 4:12 am • 36 9 • view
The song is filled with images from the Book of Revelation. The North was in conflict with the forces of evil. The South did not deserves any mercy. But also important to note that the apocalyptic imagery was two-fold: the ultimate destruction but also the hope of redemption as well. A banger.
jul 14, 2025, 1:33 am • 0 0 • view
Thanks for this discussion tonight. After too much time wasted posting at doomers and futilists today, it’s good to be reminded of the values the current political fight is about.
jul 13, 2025, 4:18 am • 21 1 • view
However garbage its current administration, this country is, and was, and always will be worth fighting for.
jul 13, 2025, 4:19 am • 63 9 • view
Lean into foundational American values — the ideas the country is built on even if some only aspirational, then and now — and we will not go astray in this current fight.
jul 13, 2025, 4:21 am • 35 2 • view
The Constitution declares that the job of each generation of Americans is to continue the unending task of building a more perfect Union. Not a *perfect* Union - no human endeavor can ever be perfect. But each of us can do our part to perfect it.
jul 13, 2025, 4:45 am • 17 3 • view
Thank you for saying it, fellow patriots. We are here for the long fight.
jul 13, 2025, 6:02 am • 3 0 • view
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jul 13, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Keep mythology out of public policy Fuck your gods I will march for no god
jul 14, 2025, 1:06 am • 0 0 • view
Just putting it out there that this is a weirdly aggressive response to the post you are replying to
jul 14, 2025, 1:30 am • 0 0 • view
Fuck Yeah! The gods have earned aggression Their fucked up minions have earned aggression No single greater source of human suffering than fucking gods
jul 14, 2025, 1:36 am • 0 0 • view
The Mormons bowdlerize the most important line.
jul 13, 2025, 4:45 am • 4 0 • view
Not quite my tempo (it’s a March!) but that is beautiful.
jul 13, 2025, 4:11 am • 2 0 • view
Wow. This is pretty incredible. You ain't kidding.
jul 13, 2025, 5:56 am • 1 0 • view
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jul 13, 2025, 10:22 am • 0 0 • view
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jul 13, 2025, 10:21 am • 0 0 • view