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Yeah, link doesn't work. Would love to have a listen.

In the mean time, some of my previous band's songs: http://vi.be/HuntingDaisies (it's all in Dutch, sorry about that, just use the media player ). We've broken up a couple of months ago but are regrouping soon in search of a new singer that better fits the style and would give us more of an edgy sound.

For those who're curious, I'm the lead guitarist & song writer of the band.

Slash only:
1. It's Five O' Clock Somewhere
2. Contraband
3. Apocalyptic Love
4. Aint Life Grand?
5. Slash
6. Libertad

Complete Slash discography:

1. AFD
2. IFOCS
3. UYI I
4. UYI II
5. Lies
6. Contraband
7. Apocalyptic Love
8. Ain't Life Grand
9. Slash
10. TSI
11. Libertad

CD would be right in between Slash & TSI

This. And I'll take it one step further: military personal chose their profession based on their convictions, their qualities and their personality like anyone else. Just like cops, teachers, doctors, politicians, firemen, etcetera. Idolizing them beyond what is reasonable, as seems to be the practice in the US since 9/11, will create this false sense of entitlement and will make people embellish and even flat-out lie about their actions just to keep the myth alive. As you say, there's just as many assholes in the military as there are in any other profession.

Being in the military as such doesn't make you a better person than anyone else. Serving your community honorably, doing the best you can, having a conscious in everything you do: that makes you a good person, regardless of wether you're an army guy, a fireman, a teacher or a local shopkeeper or a friggin' sheepherder for all I care. A soldier with 10 kills behind his name and a love of big guns might have done his job, but a good person he does not necessarily make. For all we know, all he cares about is the fact that he got to shoot 10 people with that gun of his without going to jail.

I don't mean to stigmatize military personel at all, my uncle is a colonel in the air force over here, and I know for a fact that there's a lot of great folks that serve. Actual heroes. It's just not an automatic given, and the profession as such does not necessarily deserve more respect and accolades than any other out there.

If this guy's lie was about saving little Timmy from the bottom of the well, he probably wouldn't have gotten the sympathy vote. He just isn't good enough.