Claude's Ventures

Ballad of the Green Berets
Fighting soldiers from the sky
Fearless men who jump and die
Men who mean just what they say
The brave men of the Green Beret
Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America’s best
One hundred men we’ll test today
But only three win the Green Beret
Trained to live, off nature’s land
Trained in combat, hand to hand
Men [...]

Fortunate Son
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, they’re red, white and blue.
And when the band plays “Hail to the chief”,
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no senator’s son, son.
It ain’t me, it ain’t me; I ain’t no fortunate one, no,
Yeah!
Some folks [...]

Here at Camp Atterbury I’ve been assigned to the “Holding” Company (How appropriate).
The company is made up of Soldiers demobbing (coming from activation), mobbing (being activated), retiring, getting out of the Army, medical recovery, or being processed out of Army.
The day is pretty simple. There is a 7:30 a.m. and a 3:30 p.m. formation. [...]

“Born Country”
Alabama
Clear creeks and cool mountain mornin’s.
Honest work out in the fields.
Cornbread in my momma’s kitchen.
Daddy saying grace before the meal.
Family ties run deep in this land.
And I’m never very far from what I am.
I was born country and that’s what I’ll always be.
Like the rivers and the woodlands wild and free.
I got a hundred [...]

“Riding With Private Malone”
David Ball
I was just out of the service thumbing through the classifieds
When an ad that said:”Old Chevy” somehow caught my eye
The lady didn’t know the year,or even if it ran
But I had that thousand dollars in my hand
It was way back in the corner of this old ramshackle barn
Thirty years of dust [...]