If I ever get the chance, I'm going to remake the Starship Troopers movie the way it is supposed to be made. And you will hear this song as the credits roll!
@DocMarten2525 Dear sir, where did you get this quote? i'm assuming it's a quote. if indeed it is, would love to see the whole passage, it's beautiful.
LOL My LA showed my class this and he was like "Now I don't expect you all to go and put it on your Ipods..." Sorry teacher, I'm not going with them on this. I actually like this despite being in middle school
Re: The movie of "Starship Troopers." It was the result of two men. Paul Verhoeven, the director, who is Dutch [He did "Robocop."]. And Ed Neumeier, the writer, an American. I went to a talk years ago by Ed Neumeier. He explained that the movie was made as a COMEDY. I'm dead serious. He said only the British audiences laughed at the right places. Watch "Robocop" again. See how Verhoeven treats the police. Heroic and slapstick fools at the same time. Bring back the animated version.
@danfmccarthy Verhoeven is a left wing ideolist. He would hate to portray the book properly. Please do not get me wrong I like the movie. But he shows it as a Nazi type run world with most of the caretors being white. The truth is the main caretor Rico is from the Philipines and many other races and nations are talked about. I think the movies need to be redone by some one not so bias.
Part II He got extra grenades from the guys nearest him. Then he began crawling forward. So the machine gun swung over and stitched him. Believing him dead, they went back to trying to hit his buddies. But after a few minutes, the "dead" man began creeping forward again. When they noticed this, they did a more thorough job of cutting him to pieces. It took longer to bring himself back to life this time. Incredibly, he went through this a third time. But that was enough. Grenades!
I first "heard" about Rodger Young when I was a kid in the '50's. Years before I began reading RAH. Back in the '50's they filled up daytime TV w/ shows like "Victory at Sea," and other shows about WW II. I just chanced over a jaw dropping half hour that told the story of Rodger Young. No verbal description does it justice.
First, he was a geek. Small, skinny, wore glasses, and was hard of hearing too. But when the excrement hit the air impeller he showed his heart. [Cont.]
I first sang this song in junior high. I did not encounter it again until I read Heinlen's "Starship Troopers" after college. I was so moved that I had to research Cpl. Young and his MOH citation. It is men like him that make it possible for us to remain a free people! I hope we never forget the memory of that young Ohio Militiaman who died in the Pacific. Dave Hull "The Citadel" 81
I am giving this one a thumbs up with flowing tears. As I've known this song for over 40 years, yet never heard it until now! Thanks to "The Midshipman" for first making me aware of a Hero that a Starship was maned for!
Well done on getting this version of the Ballad on youtube and nice work on the video. Well done.
To the Men of the Infantry (11Bs and 0311s, Brit Squaddies, Aussie Diggers, and all the others fighting alongside them)...doing the dirty work in A-Stan and Iraq as I type this comment from a warm, safe house.
My father used to play this song over and over on his old record player. Roger Young died the year I was born. Just today I remembered what the song was called. It wasn't this recording that he had. It was a simple version - acoustic type sung by one man who had a country style voice. Not Jim Reeves... as I remember from my young childhood, he sounded more like Hank Williams or even Gene Autry. I wonder who else recorded this song? I would love to have the version I remember.
As the Mother of an Army Officer our family is very aware of this true American soldier - and we're very fond of his song. We're truly proud of this human and very humble American fighting man. He showed the truest and best of all the Army attributes - PURE UNADULTERED AMERICAN COURAGE. We salute his actions and his memory.
I recently had a change to share his song and story with my listeners to my radio program - they loved it. That's thru Sight Seers Reading Service in Grand Rapids Mich.
No Youtube I do not want to sign up to advertising to profit from my video, firstly it's not mine, I just compiled copyright-free images and sounds, secondly I'd sonner turn down any amount of cash than profit from the memory of another man. Besides, my old corporal would do me for war profiteering :P
So please enjoy this track free from adverts telling you that you're fat, ugly, poorly endowed, and need to buy their pills.
@bennie777: First point - ROTFLMAO at the "my old corporal" comment. Second is more of a Q. - did you never rise above PFC.? If not, why? #thinking Finally, how do you get ad-free videos?
Starship Troopers is an excellent book, and I think ALL the officers in the Marine Corps Infantry need to re-read that book because it gives a great example of how Infantry Officer's should be. Excellent song, and very motivating. 0311, INFANTRY! GET SOME!
@InkOfTheLyricist Listen to me. Ask any member of a branch which other branch they respect the most. The overwhelming majority of the time, its the Marines. Ask any member of any branch who they think could fight a war all by themselves; its the Marines. The discipline, the tradition, the capability of the Marines excell everything the other branches have to offer. Never let a non com or an officer hear you talking like that about the Marines.
I've known this song since I was a kid, before I noticed it in "Starship Troopers." I remember with a little snappier tempo, Jimmy Horton style. I think it must have been in the soundtrack of a TV movie about Rodger Young. The actor in the show looked just like that photo: a little Radar-O'Reilly-looking guy with terrible eyesight and thick glasses. He loses his glasses, I recall, just before he charges the machine gun nest and has to guide himself mostly by sound.
@Stokerjet We sang this in Jr. High a long time ago. It was a beautiful song! I tried to find information on him on the internet, and at first couldn't find much. Maybe I was spelling his name wrong. I thought once that maybe he was merely a legend, but he really existed. The song was haunting! I remember reading something about him having sight trouble, and losing his glasses. The song I remember us singing did have a livelier beat. However, this is lovely! Another very nice one is by Jim
I disagree with the comment made that Clyde people of that time didnt know who Rodger Young was before he died. Green Springs is a stones throw away from Clyde, people of the two villages did interact. I have been in this town 33 yrs, and I have met and known many people born and raised here in Clyde that knew Pvt Young Growing up. My elementry choir teacher told us the story every year and had us sing the song.
Google Rodger Young little man,big heart, and there is the truth, born in the Tiffin hospital, then taken home to GreenSprings,OH where he lived from days old till he was 20 or so. Clyde people didn't know who he was. Fremont,OH was the National Guard Unit. Us GreenSprings boys all grew up in his shadow. The Tiffin and Fremont people say Rodger who?
@davesfrontporch being from Fremont, I can tell you that's not true =) It is true that many people don't know the history of him. They only know that we have a park named after him. If I end up moving back home, I will petition to have the park re-dedicated to have his story be passed on to the next generation.
I am yet another person who probably would not have heard of Rodger Young if not for Heinlein's novel and the later movie Starship Troopers. What a remarkable hero. I can't begin to imagine what it would take for me to have acted as he did. Rodger Young was and is a true American Hero.
I first learned of this song back in 1978 when I read Heinlein's "Star Ship Troopers" Since then I curious about the tune and used to think I had never heard it. Then I came here and realized I had heard it twice. The Army Band at Ft Benning plays this (or used to play it anyway) at the Infantry School graduations. This is a kind of a sad tune to start with made a little sadder in my mind because I associate it with saying goodbye to good friends - many of whom I have not seen since.
My parents named me for Rodger Young, and I am very proud of that fact. My father fought in the Solomon's. I hope that the sacrifices of people like Rodger Young will be remembered by future generations. As a march, this was the official song of the infantry at the time I was born, and was the most popular song on juke boxes right after the war.
I belive originaly he was Buried in the Solomons and then his body, with a few others, was exumed and then moved to the United States. Am I wrong you can tell me?
Greatness is something you re-commit yourself to daily. Roger Young was great, but we are not entitled to call ourselves great because of him. If you would truly honor his sacrifice, then uphold the same values he died for.
We have a proud history. Let's see to it the past is not all we have to be proud of.
I can't agree. It's always been clear to me that we Americans are a special people, both because of the freedom to which we are heir AND because, historically, we're descended from ambitious risk takers. We're the ones who left the old world behind to seek out and create something better. The less energetic stayed behind. This little genetic extra has had a lot to do with our rise to world leadership. I'm certain of it.
thanks bennie777 for sharing this song . looking for anyone that lived in rodger young village(los angeles 1948-1953 my parents lived there as teens...
I actually live about 20 minutes from Tiffin, OH where Rodger Young was from. You'd be surprised and a bit disappointed to know how few people actually know who he actually was even though there is a park in my hometown of Fremont, OH named after him. It's truly unfortunate. His memory lives on through this song and these video's though. As a member of the Ohio State Men's Glee Club, I am working to get an arrangement for this piece so that it will be recorded and preserved.
Its true....I'm from Tiffin myself, and remember learning this song in grade school~~but ask just about anyone on the street if they know who Roger Young was....nope....unfortunate and sad that a "patriotic" town like Tiffin could be so oblivious to its own heros.....
thank you very much bennie 777 for this video rodger young was a cousin to my father. i have tried to get the show about him but cant get it did find recording of this by burl ives but i really enjoy this and cant wait to show it to my family again thank you very much
Heinlein was really impressed by Young's courage and so am I. i just wish that more people remember Rodger Young and appreciate the sacrifice he and hundreds more accepted for the sake of people they wanted to protect.
@caper2x Funny you mention that. The story of Roger Young was in one of my readers in grade school. Guess they don't have stories like that for kids anymore. A great pity.
@caper2x So did I lol. I was wondering if the "-shines the name, shines the name of Rodger Young" thing that plays on the speakers for when a boat is waiting for Rico was a song or something. Now I know it is a song.
Thanks for posting this, bennie. Nicely done. I first learned of Rodger Young as a 10 year old watching a CBS-TV program named "The Great Adventure" in the mid 1960's. It was an hour long program about historical persons and events. James MacArthur played the part of Rodger. Anyone else old enough to remeber this program?
I remember my mother crying after hearing the song because she had just received word that my brother was killed in a plane crash in Seattle, Washington during WW2. There is a story about Roger Young in John F. Kennedy's "Profiles In Courage".
i love this song, because its one of the few songs about an American hero that doesn't portray him as a superman. it shows Rodger Young as the hero that he was, a volunteer, a man who should be remembered forever as one who made a truly courageous sacrifice. also the fact that Rodger Young was almost entirely deaf and probably couldn't see much, but still volunteered to go forward and let the rest of the company escape
I read the story of this soldier to my U.S. History and played this song. After the song was over silence was deafening. They got it. He was one of many of that greatest generation who really reflect the true spirit
of America and I am glad I got a chance to tell his tale.
The story of Rodger Young was done on a 1960's Black and white TV show-"The Great Adventure" it aired in 1964 and he was played by James Macarthur
sumoldfool 3 weeks ago
If I ever get the chance, I'm going to remake the Starship Troopers movie the way it is supposed to be made. And you will hear this song as the credits roll!
this1sYiutube 3 weeks ago
I am also great book. Not as much Fashist as many clame.
MegaUSAPatriot 1 month ago
Who else is here because they had to hear the actual song after reading Starship Troopers?
I also think Rico's OCS classmate Cadet Byrd (Little Birdie) may have been based on Pvt Young.
Saeyabor 2 months ago 2
@Saeyabor Yes, that's why I'm here. Great song, great book.
SamHagagaga 1 month ago
starship troopers rocks
4caloth 2 months ago
C'mon you apes, you wanna live forever?! Just finished the book, awesome stuff.
Username00011000 2 months ago 2
@DocMarten2525 Dear sir, where did you get this quote? i'm assuming it's a quote. if indeed it is, would love to see the whole passage, it's beautiful.
schmuardian 4 months ago
LOL My LA showed my class this and he was like "Now I don't expect you all to go and put it on your Ipods..." Sorry teacher, I'm not going with them on this. I actually like this despite being in middle school
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Crazymike00 6 months ago 5
Re: The movie of "Starship Troopers." It was the result of two men. Paul Verhoeven, the director, who is Dutch [He did "Robocop."]. And Ed Neumeier, the writer, an American. I went to a talk years ago by Ed Neumeier. He explained that the movie was made as a COMEDY. I'm dead serious. He said only the British audiences laughed at the right places. Watch "Robocop" again. See how Verhoeven treats the police. Heroic and slapstick fools at the same time. Bring back the animated version.
danfmccarthy 6 months ago
@danfmccarthy Verhoeven is a left wing ideolist. He would hate to portray the book properly. Please do not get me wrong I like the movie. But he shows it as a Nazi type run world with most of the caretors being white. The truth is the main caretor Rico is from the Philipines and many other races and nations are talked about. I think the movies need to be redone by some one not so bias.
MegaUSAPatriot 1 month ago
Part II He got extra grenades from the guys nearest him. Then he began crawling forward. So the machine gun swung over and stitched him. Believing him dead, they went back to trying to hit his buddies. But after a few minutes, the "dead" man began creeping forward again. When they noticed this, they did a more thorough job of cutting him to pieces. It took longer to bring himself back to life this time. Incredibly, he went through this a third time. But that was enough. Grenades!
danfmccarthy 6 months ago
I first "heard" about Rodger Young when I was a kid in the '50's. Years before I began reading RAH. Back in the '50's they filled up daytime TV w/ shows like "Victory at Sea," and other shows about WW II. I just chanced over a jaw dropping half hour that told the story of Rodger Young. No verbal description does it justice.
First, he was a geek. Small, skinny, wore glasses, and was hard of hearing too. But when the excrement hit the air impeller he showed his heart. [Cont.]
danfmccarthy 6 months ago
@DocMarten2525 So, you knew his parents? Somehow, I think not.
danfmccarthy 6 months ago
Infantry: Queen of Battle!
rdamurphy 7 months ago
I first sang this song in junior high. I did not encounter it again until I read Heinlen's "Starship Troopers" after college. I was so moved that I had to research Cpl. Young and his MOH citation. It is men like him that make it possible for us to remain a free people! I hope we never forget the memory of that young Ohio Militiaman who died in the Pacific. Dave Hull "The Citadel" 81
cascadeelectric 8 months ago
Thank You
mauser300 9 months ago
Thank you for putting together the slideshow and posting it with the song.
InakDervish 10 months ago
I am giving this one a thumbs up with flowing tears. As I've known this song for over 40 years, yet never heard it until now! Thanks to "The Midshipman" for first making me aware of a Hero that a Starship was maned for!
higgme1ster 10 months ago
Sign language project although he wasn't fully deaf it's still a great inspiring story
Davonport25 11 months ago
I was an Infentry solider and God willing I will be again. God bless Rodger Young. He is the kind of Solider I want to be.
MegaUSAPatriot 11 months ago
shines the name shines the name.....Rodger Young
neotokonaut 1 year ago
Well done on getting this version of the Ballad on youtube and nice work on the video. Well done.
To the Men of the Infantry (11Bs and 0311s, Brit Squaddies, Aussie Diggers, and all the others fighting alongside them)...doing the dirty work in A-Stan and Iraq as I type this comment from a warm, safe house.
Good Hunting and Godspeed Brothers.
Gozaryn 1 year ago
This song strikes me as something Johnny Cash should have sang. I wonder if he ever did.
Sp00nlord 1 year ago
My father used to play this song over and over on his old record player. Roger Young died the year I was born. Just today I remembered what the song was called. It wasn't this recording that he had. It was a simple version - acoustic type sung by one man who had a country style voice. Not Jim Reeves... as I remember from my young childhood, he sounded more like Hank Williams or even Gene Autry. I wonder who else recorded this song? I would love to have the version I remember.
Janarama1 1 year ago
As the Mother of an Army Officer our family is very aware of this true American soldier - and we're very fond of his song. We're truly proud of this human and very humble American fighting man. He showed the truest and best of all the Army attributes - PURE UNADULTERED AMERICAN COURAGE. We salute his actions and his memory.
I recently had a change to share his song and story with my listeners to my radio program - they loved it. That's thru Sight Seers Reading Service in Grand Rapids Mich.
sgtcombs029 1 year ago
No Youtube I do not want to sign up to advertising to profit from my video, firstly it's not mine, I just compiled copyright-free images and sounds, secondly I'd sonner turn down any amount of cash than profit from the memory of another man. Besides, my old corporal would do me for war profiteering :P
So please enjoy this track free from adverts telling you that you're fat, ugly, poorly endowed, and need to buy their pills.
bennie777 1 year ago 65
@bennie777 I don't know where you found this recording, but thank you so much for sharing it! And thank you for the beautiful imagery with it!
GarisMom 1 year ago
@bennie777: First point - ROTFLMAO at the "my old corporal" comment. Second is more of a Q. - did you never rise above PFC.? If not, why? #thinking Finally, how do you get ad-free videos?
NobleKorhedron 9 months ago
Starship Troopers is an excellent book, and I think ALL the officers in the Marine Corps Infantry need to re-read that book because it gives a great example of how Infantry Officer's should be. Excellent song, and very motivating. 0311, INFANTRY! GET SOME!
InkOfTheLyricist 1 year ago
@InkOfTheLyricist Thank God he was US army instead of the Marines
Patch121992 1 year ago
@Patch121992 Either way, he was infantry. The only REAL way to go
InkOfTheLyricist 1 year ago
@InkOfTheLyricist Listen to me. Ask any member of a branch which other branch they respect the most. The overwhelming majority of the time, its the Marines. Ask any member of any branch who they think could fight a war all by themselves; its the Marines. The discipline, the tradition, the capability of the Marines excell everything the other branches have to offer. Never let a non com or an officer hear you talking like that about the Marines.
keinve2 1 year ago
TO THE EVERLASTING GLORY OF THE INFANTRY!
juki009 1 year ago
Home of the brave. :)
jmscarp1234 1 year ago
Excellent! Thanks for doing this!!! - Ted FIler LTC (ret)
BrosephGreyson 1 year ago
I've known this song since I was a kid, before I noticed it in "Starship Troopers." I remember with a little snappier tempo, Jimmy Horton style. I think it must have been in the soundtrack of a TV movie about Rodger Young. The actor in the show looked just like that photo: a little Radar-O'Reilly-looking guy with terrible eyesight and thick glasses. He loses his glasses, I recall, just before he charges the machine gun nest and has to guide himself mostly by sound.
Texan999999 1 year ago
I first heard about Pvt. Rodger Young from Starship Troopers. I also first heard this song from Starship Troopers by Heinlein.
Darthzala 1 year ago 3
We used to have to sing this in elementary school in the 1950s in maryland.
Thx for posting it.
Stokerjet 1 year ago
@Stokerjet We sang this in Jr. High a long time ago. It was a beautiful song! I tried to find information on him on the internet, and at first couldn't find much. Maybe I was spelling his name wrong. I thought once that maybe he was merely a legend, but he really existed. The song was haunting! I remember reading something about him having sight trouble, and losing his glasses. The song I remember us singing did have a livelier beat. However, this is lovely! Another very nice one is by Jim
loveoldsongs 1 year ago
@loveoldsongs Reeves, I listened to that one too. I had no idea he had done one too!
loveoldsongs 1 year ago
I disagree with the comment made that Clyde people of that time didnt know who Rodger Young was before he died. Green Springs is a stones throw away from Clyde, people of the two villages did interact. I have been in this town 33 yrs, and I have met and known many people born and raised here in Clyde that knew Pvt Young Growing up. My elementry choir teacher told us the story every year and had us sing the song.
snyder841 2 years ago
Google Rodger Young little man,big heart, and there is the truth, born in the Tiffin hospital, then taken home to GreenSprings,OH where he lived from days old till he was 20 or so. Clyde people didn't know who he was. Fremont,OH was the National Guard Unit. Us GreenSprings boys all grew up in his shadow. The Tiffin and Fremont people say Rodger who?
davesfrontporch 2 years ago
@davesfrontporch being from Fremont, I can tell you that's not true =) It is true that many people don't know the history of him. They only know that we have a park named after him. If I end up moving back home, I will petition to have the park re-dedicated to have his story be passed on to the next generation.
held46 11 months ago
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Woodsmoke835 2 years ago
I am yet another person who probably would not have heard of Rodger Young if not for Heinlein's novel and the later movie Starship Troopers. What a remarkable hero. I can't begin to imagine what it would take for me to have acted as he did. Rodger Young was and is a true American Hero.
ContraRich77 2 years ago 4
I first learned of this song back in 1978 when I read Heinlein's "Star Ship Troopers" Since then I curious about the tune and used to think I had never heard it. Then I came here and realized I had heard it twice. The Army Band at Ft Benning plays this (or used to play it anyway) at the Infantry School graduations. This is a kind of a sad tune to start with made a little sadder in my mind because I associate it with saying goodbye to good friends - many of whom I have not seen since.
StrykerDad54 2 years ago 3
Also heard from it in Starship troopers
4caloth 2 years ago
My parents named me for Rodger Young, and I am very proud of that fact. My father fought in the Solomon's. I hope that the sacrifices of people like Rodger Young will be remembered by future generations. As a march, this was the official song of the infantry at the time I was born, and was the most popular song on juke boxes right after the war.
goldpointe 2 years ago 2
I belive originaly he was Buried in the Solomons and then his body, with a few others, was exumed and then moved to the United States. Am I wrong you can tell me?
Vutxzzn 2 years ago
Yes
In 1949, Young's remains were returned to the United States and buried in McPherson Cemetery in Clyde, Ohio.
brinderofdeath 2 years ago
What a great people we Americans are. Anybody who says we're not a cut above is whistling past the graveyard. Go with God, Private Young.
Norm
theshadow1932 2 years ago 2
Greatness is something you re-commit yourself to daily. Roger Young was great, but we are not entitled to call ourselves great because of him. If you would truly honor his sacrifice, then uphold the same values he died for.
We have a proud history. Let's see to it the past is not all we have to be proud of.
Tinandel 2 years ago 5
I can't agree. It's always been clear to me that we Americans are a special people, both because of the freedom to which we are heir AND because, historically, we're descended from ambitious risk takers. We're the ones who left the old world behind to seek out and create something better. The less energetic stayed behind. This little genetic extra has had a lot to do with our rise to world leadership. I'm certain of it.
Norm
theshadow1932 2 years ago
im a Navy person myself.....but i would salute Rodger W. Young in a heartbeat. He is one of my biggest heros.
Draycos214 2 years ago 5
thanks bennie777 for sharing this song . looking for anyone that lived in rodger young village(los angeles 1948-1953 my parents lived there as teens...
trash516 2 years ago
I actually live about 20 minutes from Tiffin, OH where Rodger Young was from. You'd be surprised and a bit disappointed to know how few people actually know who he actually was even though there is a park in my hometown of Fremont, OH named after him. It's truly unfortunate. His memory lives on through this song and these video's though. As a member of the Ohio State Men's Glee Club, I am working to get an arrangement for this piece so that it will be recorded and preserved.
held46 3 years ago
he was from clyde
howardroard 2 years ago
Nope, he was born in Tiffin, OH. buried in McPherson Cemetery in Clyde, OH.
held46 2 years ago
Its true....I'm from Tiffin myself, and remember learning this song in grade school~~but ask just about anyone on the street if they know who Roger Young was....nope....unfortunate and sad that a "patriotic" town like Tiffin could be so oblivious to its own heros.....
missgriffin77 2 years ago
I'm another one who learned about Rodger Young through Heinlein's Starship Troopers. Young's sacrifice was beautiful.
DesertFox101 3 years ago 4
thank you very much bennie 777 for this video rodger young was a cousin to my father. i have tried to get the show about him but cant get it did find recording of this by burl ives but i really enjoy this and cant wait to show it to my family again thank you very much
mombell47 3 years ago
Heinlein was really impressed by Young's courage and so am I. i just wish that more people remember Rodger Young and appreciate the sacrifice he and hundreds more accepted for the sake of people they wanted to protect.
A salute to you, Private Young!
Pariah502 3 years ago 5
I learned of the story and the hero, oddly enough in a Sciense Fiction book. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein.
caper2x 3 years ago 104
@caper2x same here
futureWestPointhero 1 year ago
@caper2x That is the same way I heard about it. It's funny though because he slightly misquotes the song at the end of the book.
westchester93301 1 year ago
@caper2x
On the bounce! Mobile Infantry FTMFW! I love that book. The movie was a terrible bastardization of the book.
chopinbloc 1 year ago
@caper2x same here. finally found the song though. and I am glad for that.
Restartus1719 1 year ago
@caper2x Heinlein was a military man himself; its not surprising that one of his books would contain a reference to a military hero.
Granted, he also wrote the quintessential hippy book 'Stranger In A Strange Land'.
keinve2 1 year ago
@caper2x Funny you mention that. The story of Roger Young was in one of my readers in grade school. Guess they don't have stories like that for kids anymore. A great pity.
GarisMom 1 year ago
@caper2x: Seconded!!
NobleKorhedron 9 months ago
@caper2x So did I lol. I was wondering if the "-shines the name, shines the name of Rodger Young" thing that plays on the speakers for when a boat is waiting for Rico was a song or something. Now I know it is a song.
CDBigShow 9 months ago
@caper2x So did most of the rest of us here.
I'm currently doing a long essay for school on the political messages in that book, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
SamHagagaga 5 months ago
@caper2x there's a good reason he had a spaceship named after him...
redpunk 4 months ago
Thanks for posting this, bennie. Nicely done. I first learned of Rodger Young as a 10 year old watching a CBS-TV program named "The Great Adventure" in the mid 1960's. It was an hour long program about historical persons and events. James MacArthur played the part of Rodger. Anyone else old enough to remeber this program?
Tapmann 3 years ago 5
Thanks for posting this and God bless the thousands who died to preserve our freedom. I only wish more Americans realized what their freedom cost.
Norm
theshadow1932 3 years ago 18
I read about him... and this song... in Heinlein's Starship Troopers.
He's a worthy icon of all those like him through the history of those who have stood between their homes and those who threaten them.
bobwaters 3 years ago 6
Thanks to you... and thanks to Rodger Young.
bobwaters 3 years ago 6
I remember my mother crying after hearing the song because she had just received word that my brother was killed in a plane crash in Seattle, Washington during WW2. There is a story about Roger Young in John F. Kennedy's "Profiles In Courage".
ronofnc 3 years ago 6
i love this song, because its one of the few songs about an American hero that doesn't portray him as a superman. it shows Rodger Young as the hero that he was, a volunteer, a man who should be remembered forever as one who made a truly courageous sacrifice. also the fact that Rodger Young was almost entirely deaf and probably couldn't see much, but still volunteered to go forward and let the rest of the company escape
I SALUTE YOU RODGER YOUNG
GreyHunter0089 3 years ago 8
Thanks for putting this song on you-tube. My pastor used to have this played at our church and he has read his citation many times.
pohnowax 3 years ago 7
Infanterie Königin alle Waffen!
Infantry, the queen of the Weapons!
Fanteria, la regina delle Armi!
DVXIMMORTALIS 3 years ago 7
Oh Yes I learned about Rodger Young in the John Kennedy book "Profiles in Courage".
ronofnc 3 years ago 5
I read the story of this soldier to my U.S. History and played this song. After the song was over silence was deafening. They got it. He was one of many of that greatest generation who really reflect the true spirit
of America and I am glad I got a chance to tell his tale.
JSEPTX 3 years ago 11