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Rodger Young.

By The Armorer on December 11, 2005 | | Comments (8)

Have you read Heinlein's Starship Troopers (vice the crap movie), and wondered, however briefly, the source of the music played over the speakers to the Mobile Infantry on the... Rodger Young?

No, they've got no time for glory in the Infantry,
No, they've got no use for praises loudly sung,
But in every soldier's heart in all the Infantry
Shines the name, shines the name of Rodger Young.

Well, click here. Now you know.

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By beth on December 11, 2005 2:20 PM
That's a great story. It made me cry, but it's a great story.
 
By Barb on December 11, 2005 2:35 PM
That's awesome! I was aware that he was a MOH recipient, but not the details of his personal life, or the actions for which he was recognized. Thanks for that great link!
 
By kat-missouri on December 11, 2005 7:55 PM
Heh..thanks John. Great reminder.
 
By Steve Skubinna on December 11, 2005 11:39 PM
My parents had a Burl Ives album with that song. So far that's the only rendition of it I've ever heard. I also recall a folk album of my parents' (think it was the Gateway Singers) with a song about the USS Reuben James, a destroyer torpedoed by a U-boat prior to the US entry in the Second World War. Odd to think there was a time when performers, as a rule, did not depsise the military.
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 12, 2005 5:30 AM
Wonder if Arlo Guthrie, he of Alice's Restaurant (a great song, regardless) approved of the song about the Reuben James, it having been written by his father, Woody Guthrie.
 
By Chadd on December 12, 2005 9:45 AM
I became aware that he was a MOH recipient when I went through the "movement under direct fire" range down at Ft Benning when I was going through the basic course back in '94. Appropriately enough, the range is named "Rodger Young" range. Starship Troopers was one of the books on the Infantry School's professional reading list for lieutenants, so the majority of us had read it by the time we went through, but I did not know the details associated with the story. Thanks for providing.
 
By WV.Hillbilly on December 12, 2005 10:15 AM
We used to sing this song in music class when I was in grade school.
 
By Raymond B on December 13, 2005 9:01 PM
I love the movie Starship Troopers. Raymond B www.voteswagon.com