Heavy Rotation: Fort Hood
I was a little disappointed in Mike Doughty's last album and his new album. Golden Delicious, isn't going to reinvent the music world but it's got a good amount catchy songs. The first song on the album has grown on me (and will likely be on the 06 SoulMix) and I like the sentiment behind it. Doughty explains it fully on his myspace page (or, at least, in a bulletin he posted) and the jist is:
"Fort Hood" isn't exactly an anti-war song. It's more of a song about my own guilt for living life without thinking of the war every moment. I was invited by the USO to visit Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2006; I went over and gave CDs to wounded guys, most of them in their 20s, most missing limbs. It was tremendously moving. As we left the hospital, I was thinking that I wanted to never lose that feeling I felt, of incredible gratitude for everything in life.
Fort Hood is the base in Texas that's lost the most people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
