Merle Haggard -- Me and Crippled Soldiers

[buddyzroadie]

Thank you so much for posting this! And God Bless you and Merle!

[HansBooBee]

Remember, the first amendment is to protect unpopular, often unpopular political speech. NOT to just talk about the weather

[dwayne22891]

It amazes me you people not only,do not know what's going on,but cannot spell

[WOODYSKYM]

You are right Thejer1963, but Bush Sr. is a traitor none the less, & I should have said the Supreme Court Ruling, but hell alot of people love my comment anyway so gives a damn.

[GrigoriZhukov]

@WOODYSKYM nope you uneducated moron he isn't. But hey it's a free country until the morons idiots like you keep voting for. This vetrans loaths the right, the left and every religious retard everywhere. now do go somewhere your kind are wanted...1939 germany for instance.

[judyfayegroves]

@GrigoriZhukov Amen Brother, and another sad thing is there will be a flag over his coffin. There shouldn't be. He did not like the flag in life he don't need it in death.

[Bubba200991]

Gotta love the Hag!!

[MrJihadJesus]

I wnat

[MrJihadJesus]

I love Merl but man, is he high?

[TheJer1963]

We have not won a war since 1945. We need to find something else to do.

[50TNCSA]

@TheJer1963 korea was a draw vietnam a loss gulf a big win afghan unknown iraq unknown only time will tell

[randy1475]

As a disabled Viet Nam Vet, this song means so much to me. I am sure other veterans feel the same way. randy1475

[randy1475]

As a disabled Viet Nam Vet, this song means so much to me. I am sure other veterans feel the same way. rady1475

[MAHARDWAY]

Christ Almighty loves him some HAGs .... me too .

[corndy1]

A great patriot, songwriter, and singer. God bless you Merle.

[unluckylady83]

first time ive ever heard this song it moved me to tears and i have a greater respect for merle haggard than i had before .YOU GO MERLE THANKS FROM A DAUGHTER OF A VET!

[lexker]

God Love the Hag. Time for someone to have a backbone.

[12fangs]

i'm australian and all for this song and what it stands for, good on the old USA and Merle

[Bubba200991]

Why can't I share this on my facebook page?

[darrell1934]

This a very touching song!

[jhhi44]

If that don't get ya fired up, then you oughta check your pulse!

[roger3644]

A great song Merle but all your sonds are great ......

[vivascargill]

Merle could say anything have any politics who cares!! He is a great great artist!! doesn't that count!!

[JohnPatrick56]

@vivascargill Yes, indeed,it DOES!!! YEE-HAA!!!

[Hagfan789]

This song is off of the Blue Jungle album, I found thata cd in the bargin bin...and it's one of the best cd's i own...every song is great..best $5 i have ever spent.. go find it.

[mjoypark]

This is one of his greatest songs. It tells us a lot about the singer

[xtoxicurex]

hit the spot...........i love america.......

[headedhome]

I have no trouble from anyone who burs the flag,as long as they wrap thier sorry a;;;s in it first, Juat a vet,who cares

[TunesNorth]

@headedhome

Well said my brother.

Thank you for sharing Merle's awesome song,

and interview.

I got nothin' but thumbs!

A Proud US Navy Veteran!

[venazure]

yes love u merle, my dad could sing just like you.

[darobinson1961]

Merle sings a song about the voting of he desecration of the United States Flag and the Veterans who fought and how they care to save the National Symbol !!!

[semperfi602]

US Flag Code. TITLE 4 > CHAPTER 1 > Sec. 8(k). It states:

"The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning"

This is the only acceptable reason to burn a flag. God bless america, our troops and all those that stand with them.

[lionstanding]

Soldiers are in service to The Constitution and God bless those that follow the oath. Burning the flag is an empty, misplaced gesture....a message of powerlessness in the face of fascism. Well, folks we're ALL soldiers and the FIBER of the flag and remember WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT and have an oath to protect so soldiers don't have to be sacrificed.

[DocHoliday1882]

A great and timely song, Merle Haggard this is excellent, well done . Thanks Dennis fer sharing this song with me.5*****

[hagfanslady]

Merle has always said it like it needs to be said THANK GOD

[imatyourhouse8]

What album is this song from??

[hagfanslady]

@imatyourhouse8 it is on greatest hits volume 2

[all95621]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY  HAG.

73 & still going strrong

4-7-2010

[WOODYSKYM]

God Bless Ya Hag!!! This song was wrote after George H.W. Bush ordered the disicration of the American flag. Like it or not this song is telling the truth like all of Merle Haggard's songs do. Truth & Honesty.

[hagfanslady]

@WOODYSKYM hey Woody how ya doin'

[mrwascaly42]

@WOODYSKYM Hardly, it was the libs on the supreme court not BUSH!

[TheJer1963]

@WOODYSKYM The Supreme court ruled a longtime ago that you could burn the American flag. This is nothing new. Go back and look at kids in the 60's. Can't put this one on Bush but nice try.

[MrKerryo]

@WOODYSKYM PLEASE READ A HISTORY BOOK, OR AT LEAST GOOGLE THE FLAG BURNING ISSUES OF THE TIME OF THIS RECORDING (IN 1989 AND 1990) & WHEN GHW Bush was president...Please educate yourself on the issue!

FYI - Bush lobbied for a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO DISALLOW FLAG BURNING!!! I believe I will exercise my 1st amendment right and call you 'estupido'.

[Maples01]

@MrKerryo Yep, the sad thing is the fools who sided that it expressing freedom of speech.

[Maples01]

@WOODYSKYM You idiot, Bush tried to Amend the constitution to make it illegal to burn the flag!

[judyfayegroves]

@WOODYSKYM It is so sad that this was the truth. But I agree, Merle is all about Truth and Honesty and it makes me sick to my stomach when I see Old Glory being abused. Thank you george h. w. bush for showing us the real you.You should be ashamed of yourself. Those soldiers died for you also. And this is the respect you gave them.

[WOODYSKYM]

This Song Was written After George H.W. Bush ordered the disicration & the burning of the American flag. It did piss alot of vets off both my Grandfather & my father were outraged!!!

[GrigoriZhukov]

@WOODYSKYM Oh really? I know you posted this over a year ago...but I challenge you to prove your LIE you dumb sack of fermented bovine excrement. Besides, america is no longer a real country it's nation of dumb fuck religous cunts that make the taliban look good. Death to Fallwellians.

[judyfayegroves]

@GrigoriZhukov  Why don't you just leave our country and find one that suits you better. I had a brother died because of Viet nam . Did you serve anything but a barstool?

[GrigoriZhukov]

@judyfayegroves heh? methinks you replied to the wrong bum. I served in the gulf and for long after...

[all95621]

This is for Bluegsp !!

I do have on more suggetion for you.

IF YOU HAD RATHER ARGUE POLITICS

YOU TUBE HAS A SITE JUST FOR THAT.

SO PLEASE GO THERE AND LET THE REST OF US ENJOY THE MUSIC.

I'm sure Merle could care less about how you feel about his music.

He's always been noted to tellin' it like it is. THAT'S ALL FOLKS...

THANK YOU

[bluegsp]

This is a political song. Merle has made numerous political songs. If your tiny little mind cannot comprehend that, maybe you should stop posting and stop reading the comments. They seem to have upset you to the point angry frustration. Like a small child having a temper tantrum.

[all95621]

@HerbWalker God Bless You for all you gave for our country.

It makes me proud to see post's like your's.

THE HAG just sing's it like it is. LIKE IT OR NOT!!!!!

[highnrising]

Hag's a great musician--and a cement-head of a political "philosopher".

He really speaks like a moron here.

[sexyfrenchyone]

I am not even an American and I am so concerned by the way the US is heading. It seems that the west is become more obsessed with being politically correct than saving and protecting our own identity. It amzing that the things so many of our veterans fought for seems to have lost its meaning and purpose. Its time for the west to snap out of this silly way of worrying of how people feel and get back down to business!

[pulangdragon]

Are you listening to this, President Obama??

[bluegsp]

This was when Merle still loved America

[johnrunion]

merle still loves america. he just calls it like he sees it. if he sees fault from the dems or the reps...he calls it.

[bluegsp]

Naw, Merle use to be a thoughtful patriot, now he is a brain attled populist.  I think he has spent too much time in Willies bus.

[johnrunion]

i have to disagree with you on that one. no one is going to agree with anyone 100% of the time. if someone doesn't have the exact same ideas/beliefs as you that makes them not a patriot and someone who doesn't love america? you should read the recent rolling stone magazine interview with merle. merle is too complex/complicated for left/right, black/white, one party always being right/the other always being wrong.

[johnrunion]

why is it with merle haggard that he is always being held under much closer scrutiny than other country artists? why must he have to be the one that has a certain political agenda that always agrees with one political party. where with other artists they just keep their mouths shut, no one knows what they REALLY believe in and everyone just says if they like their songs or not.

[bluegsp]

I guess you have never heard of the Dixie Chicks

[johnrunion]

sure i have heard of the dixie chicks. they look good, especially the twins. i hate their music. their statement and everything else about their political beliefs are totally different than merle's. it is totally a different situation. it is not a dem/rep, black/white, right/wrong situation. it is much more complex than what you are attempting to make it.

[bluegsp]

I wasn't talking to you, I was addressing HerbWalker. You give Merle too much credit, he is not that deep. Good country singer, but not a great intellect. He used to be patriotic, but now he has bought into all the liberal hate America rhetoric. Like I said, he spent too much time in Willie's bus

[johnrunion]

you don't give merle enough credit.

[bluegsp]

I don't do "hero worship".  He will be a legend in country music, but not political science

[johnrunion]

who said anything about hero worship?

merle is too complex to be defined by a political party. he doesn't line up blindly with either party.

[bluegsp]

yeah right, "complex" ;)

[johnrunion]

oh, i guess since merle doesn't agree with You 100% on All political issues that makes him a simpleton and by default you are superior.

[bluegsp]

The line from his song endorsing Hillary "This country needs to be honest/This country needs to be large/Something like a big switch of gender/Let's put a woman in charge." tells me that he is naive. If he thinks Bill or Hillary are honest, he never came out of Willies bus from 1992 to 2000. He is an entertainer, not a political mind. His songs supporting America are patriotic, but when he starts endorsing people, he opens himself up to criticism.

[johnrunion]

i think you miss the humor of the song. something hillary did not. she did not like the song. she went elsewhere looking for another song soon afterward.

[johnrunion]

read merle's interview in a recent issue of rolling stone for more insights into his thinking and his ideas on politics.

[bluegsp]

Of course Hillary rejected it, democrats like her are elitists who despise real Americans unless they can exploit them. Merle has just bought in to the anti American populous propaganda that the liberals were spewing about the Bush administration and the Iraq war. He demonstrated it again with his song America first. This was the same type of rhetoric that swept Obama into the white house. But America is waking up now and realizing that they were fooled

[johnrunion]

we are never going to agree. america first is a great song. i am a moderate. i do not proclaim a political party. i am against the war, but i am for the soldiers. i didn't like bush. i don't like obama. come to think of it, i can't think of an american president in my life time that i did like. things are much more complicated/complex than just two political parties.

[johnrunion]

the two parties can only agree on one thing: there will be no third party. the two party system is broken. it is nothing more than big business. dem or rep, it doesn't matter what is in the white house. it is business as usual.

[bluegsp]

I am a conservative and the republican party left my after Reagan's terms. The democrat party has lost their minds and their integrity. Both Bush's tried to bring the party to the left and that's why they lost in 06 and 08. Sometimes war is necessary, there were mistakes made, but after 9/11 we had to do something and Iraq and Afghanistan were the right venues. Perhaps you should look into the Tea-party movement. It may be our best chance to take this country back.

[johnrunion]

thank you for sharing your insights. thank you for your recommendation. best wishes. take care. good luck. my best to you and your's.

[bluegsp]

Yeah, ditto. ;)

[johnrunion]

thank you. take care. best wishes.

[all95621]

Well I'm not sure we really need the

":Tea Party" if I remember right Sara was the one that said she approves of assult riffles. Now that kind of thinking scares the hell out of me. I'm a depression born

we had nothing.But we saluted the flag every day in school. It breaks my heart to see our flag being burned or torn apart by a bunch of no good SOB's. I'm sure I'll get some feed back from this post. But we still have freedom of speach. If you want to contact me that's o.k. I can tell U lots.

[bluegsp]

Your problem is the same as Merle's. You are not a deep political thinker. 1st of all, you can't support the troops, if you don't support the war. That is an ignorant liberal saying that doesn't make sense. There is no evidence that Sarah Palin supports assult rifles, and even if she did, that has nothing to do with the Tea Party movement. You should turn off MSNBC and start thinking for yourself

[all95621]

Don't call me a ignorant liberal.

U A.. h...

So if everyone dosen't agree with you, then we should not post here.

Sorry you have a one sided brain cell.

By reading all of your posts I'm not sure which way you are headed.

HAVE A NICE DAY

[bluegsp]

No, you can post here. But when you say something stupid, expect to be called on it. I will take the high road not call you vulgar names as you have resorted to because you cannot defend your position. I will just say I hope you wise up and learn to think for yourself.

[all95621]

Talk about being STUPID!!!!!

I CHOOSE NOT TO WASTE MY TIME ON YOU.

Just consider the source.

[bluegsp]

Oh, I have considered the source.

[all95621]

One thing for sure, there's no doubt that Merle speakes his mind. If you can stand up for what you belleive in then what's left of your soul???

I'M AGAINST THIS WAR, BUT I DO SUPPORT OUR TROOPS. God I pray for their safe return to their families.

"I'm not a real political man, I don't know the difference between Iraq and Iran"

Does that sound familar to anyone???

I do think we need to get back home and take care of our own country. It's got a lot of fixin' that need done.

[ru2l8t]

You got it right on the money Merle ! I wont let ole glory go down without a fight!

[jodie1947]

very powerful song, thank you thank you thank you