We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:58:13 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 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.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:01:56 -0600 I love the movie Starship Troopers. Raymond B www.voteswagon.com http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36310 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36310 Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:01:07 -0600 We used to sing this song in music class when I was in grade school. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36233 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36233 Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:15:54 -0600 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. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36231 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36231 Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:45:06 -0600 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. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36227 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36227 Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:30:36 -0600 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. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36225 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36225 Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:39:48 -0600 Heh..thanks John. Great reminder. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36213 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36213 Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:55:12 -0600 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! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36188 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36188 Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:35:02 -0600 That's a great story. It made me cry, but it's a great story. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36185 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/rodger_young.html#comment-36185 Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:20:20 -0600