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  • ... well... I'm still glad to be a soldier in the United states army... even if people claim my life sux, and i have PTSD... its true for a large amount of soldiers, but not for all. The ones who suffer are rare... Meh, this vid doess raise some good issues though :/

  • this song tells about his actual experiences and his opinion on them.

    If you don't like it, don't listen.

  • i love this song the lyrics aare so great.

    very emotional

  • You are just a little special aren't you. Only a moron would believe such bull shit

  • i love this song.

    i dont see how anybody would want to go to war to be a hero and say they fought.

    yet i see and hear it everyday.

    rediculous.

  • You see and hear it every day, because these days, there is alot of Veterans that coming home from the war zones. There is nothing wrong being a veteran and saying that you fought for your country. Me my self, been to Iraq and Afghanistan few times. And I have to say, there is nothing glorious, romantic and good, about the war, and only a fool will glorify the war.

  • Great song. Going to see these guys live in a couple of days.

  • i love the song but it's so sad <3

  • I aprpeciate the effort to convey the agony and struggles the troops go thorugh. Some of the lyrics were very strong and compelling, others just trite and clich'ed. More solders have tried to rescue hurt and wounded kids than have kicked in doors and taken away someone in the night. The soldier at the end who paints his face and wanders outside is just an awfull cliche. A more realistic ending would the soldier in divorce court, or sitting on the curb, homeless, with a bottle. E6 AF 23 yrs

  • thats like, totally epic. and i dont mean awesome, just..epic, just a great song. :)

  • "Soldiers do not fight to win and be heroes but fight to end the war." - Anonymous

  • Wow, I think it's amazing that so many people can comment this video and say that this song opened up their eyes for all the saccrifices that our soldiers is making. And then the commentators don't have the common descensy to make it sound like it's something bad, even Though this song is clearly ANTI-WAR.

  • wow.. amazing song and video.. thank guys..

  • This song seriously gets to me; it's just so well written and has so much meaning and belief behind it

  • Awesome Best Song Ever!

  • suddenly, the world has just hit me, reality kicked in, and that their is a lot more sacrifice in this world than i originally thought from our soliders. so much death for something like freedom that we take for granted everyday. Rise Against has again opened my eyes to the truth. Go Rise Against!!

  • Love this song, one of the best songs in the world of you ask me. such a good and strong lyrics, it's almost that you get a tear in you eye when you listen to it..

  • this song is wonderfull

  • We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to

    visit violence on those who would harm us.

  • "Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."

    -Herbert Hoover

  • @versiglia123 hell of a quote

  • "All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time."

    -Chesty Puller

  • @versiglia123

    Totally right mate!

  • EVERY1 Join my facebook page and become a fan!!! im hoping to get hero of war to number 1 in the UK charts this year!!!!plz join!!!!

  • @ADguitarROCKER Link?

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  • This song is so strong and deep. Alot of people don't take the time to see what those soldiers are going through. it is an awful game that is taking away so many lives. Those who die are fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts, brothers, sister, daughters, sons, etc. My brother wants to be a marine, but i am afraid for him.

  • best song by rise against

  • a flag white as snow....such a wonderfull song

  • ive been to war in iraq and i watched my regament get bombed by I.E.D`s its not fun i come back a decorated soldier for surviving and to my family a hero of war, but i am no hero war is terrible and signing those papers to join the army was the worst thing i have ever done in my life. everyone i new was proud of me but to what extent should they be proud of, what have i really accomplished, nothing, ive sen and heard thing unamaginable, "only the dead have seen the end of war" R.I.P. rangers

  • @littleg31 Semper Fi brother, Welcome home. I know you Army guys dont say the but still.

    Your friendly neighborhood Marine

  • @Littleg31, stop fronting, you were never in Iraq, and probobly never even served. You from Canada, and Canadians did not have a regiment in Iraq. Heck you dont even sound like a soldier. So stop bullshiting, you troll !

    I'm on other hand joined US Army, right after 9/11.Did One tour in Afghanistan, 2 in Iraq, and now getting ready to deploy to afghanistan again. And i have to say, that joining the Army was the best choice i ever made.

  • have you killed people???

  • @email4florian. No I have not ! I've seen lots of shit. I'm a US Army infantry, and I fought against insurgents, Taliban, and Terrorists, and I dont consider them as "people", just as they dont consider us. But I have never killed a civilian.

  • @sectorSos : How would you know the people against you fought were terrorists or taliban? the people who shoot at you thinks you are a terrorist....why you cant live in piece ....i know its easy to say but hard to do .....but every body can do something to live in piece .......

  • @gsg9truppe: I am living at peace. Being in the US Army, it is my job. And I love my job. I fight for my country, i fight for my flag, I follow orders as a soldier. Like someone esle said before "Soldiers dont fight to be a Heroes, they fight to end the war"

  • @gsg9truppe : How do we know that people we fighting with is Taliban or Al-Quida insurgents ? Well it is simple. We dont fight a conventional war, we not in war with Iraq or Afghanistan government. They are on our side. So if anybody picks up his arms, to fight against us, or Iraqi or Afghanistan or any Nato country, it automatically makes them an insurgent. Plus they are claiming to be Jihadists/mudhahadeens, who must kill all of the infidels (none muslims) That what makes this war difficult.

  • that is a retarted question that only the foolish and egotistical ask and answer. and yes i'm infantry ad just got back from another tour. sadly you can't understand unless you become part of the disfunctional family that is the military.

  • "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to Mankind" - Albert Einstein

  • @TheRejected94 similar quote H.G.Wells said "if we don't finish war, war will finish us"

  • War is a terrible thing, and those soldiers have seen and done things that normal citizens can't even imagine. I love this song, it is so strong, and it shows you that soldiers are not always the "heros". How about next Veterans Day, we all go thank a soldier for what they've done.

  • this video makes me cry.,, i love rise against.

  • People dont realize how hard war is.. you kill someone thats not something your proud of.. when you kill some one who wants to run go back and leave the war. it just haunts you...

  • And may Christ have mercy on our souls for letting it happen.

  • I cried watching this. It just shows how cruel the world is. Rise Against you are amazing

  • And @ 1:38 it's the bass player and @ 2:06 it's the guitarist.

  • rise against doesn't say anything to put our country down, they are very good with their words. they just give everybody a good idea of what we're going through. this song just gives u an idea of what it means to be a US soldier

  • The guy at 2:00 is he part of the band? Cause i read a short story in a book about the war and he looked alot like the that guy. I thought that might be him cause in the book the guy took a pic of his troop leader beating up a defenseless prisoner, and it just happens he pops up when Rise Against sings about torturing the other guy. If possible, Can somebody answer

  • The guy @ 2:00 is the Drummer for the Band.

  • Some people should be strapped to a chair and be forced to watch this. Only the they'll realize they have it easy

  • At the end, the flag is white as snow, which implies that she had a peace flag in her hand when she was shot down.

  • Wow that's the best music video I've ever seen.

    It has a message, not like the Lady Gaga videos and shit like that..

    Really great.

  • i hate that cunt

  • iLove it

  • hey small question at 3:22 he says "a flag as white as smoke" what kind of flag was it? cause im not sure when hes talking about when he talks about him stopping the girl that walked through the smoke does he ask her to stop then shoot her or is she a soilder who got shot?

    just reply to the comment instead of posting another comment after this thanks :)

  • She was trying to surrender, she died trying to wave the white flag for her people. Guessing it was someone innocent.

    I think its also 'a flag as white as snow'

  • @nikel3161 he says a flag white as "snow" not as smoke.

  • She is considered part of the innocent people of Iraq. The ones who got hurt and beaten by the arrogant soldiers who don't have any respect ll=ike honorable soldiers. She is used in the example Shoot First Ask Questions Later Policy

  • Woo got a version that's not vevo!!!!

    Great song!!

  • Vevo sucks it can't load any videos

  • i hate that vevo shit it loads and when u pause it when it start buffering and then when u press play it takes u back to the start of the fucking song and it buffers like 2 seconds later VEVO. sucks ass

  • Awesome Song :) 5/5

  • appeal to reason is the best album ever!!!!!!!!

  • i just got it for christmas i just wish it had ready to fall :( i love that song

  • my favorite song from the album is "from heads university " listen it its perfect!!!!!!!1

  • heads unworthy

  • this song is just awesome

    RISE AGAINST 4EVER!!

  • wow...simply wow...im not one to down someones right to free speech, and ive been a fan of rise against for years, but as a combat veteran i find the VIDEO itself completely ignorant. Love the song but the video is just crap. I know plenty of soldiers who have been fucked in the head because of combat and i find the song very moving because a similar incident has happened to me.(the last part of the song with the girl) But if you have mental injurys from war, please seek help. it will eat you up

  • It is so great

  • VIiiiiiiiiiielen vielen dank 123rouven123 (:

    Mir is es immer sehr wichtig zu verstehen worum´s in liedern geht..deswegen danke :)

    jetz verteh ich´s..

    RIse Against 4 Life.. ♥

  • so solls ja auch sein xD.. bitte!

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  • I love this song so much... it's so beautiful..

    ..but i have a question..i don't understand the end..why he's painting his face wite?..

    could someone explain me?.. :) thank you..

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  • Cause I'm sure this windbag know what war is like.

  • im joining the army i know wha im in for but im willing to risk my life for my county

  • this song makes me depressive... and the video is HORROR

  • too fucking awsome nice one and i don't like that much rise against but this song is awsome

  • I misinterpreted this song when I heard it the first couple of times - I thought it was song against service members. After listening to it more times though, I realized it's simply about how f'd up war is, and the fact that people at home can't understand that - just a foreign video game to them. This song always makes me well up.

  • This song depresses me too. I knew what it was about when I first heard it but the lyrics really hit home especially in the second verse

  • This song.... hits home sooooo hard.

  • just great!!

    all time fav...

  • i here you man, having served in iraq and in afghanistan, lost lots of friends and comrades. any man that is out there risking there life is a friend, no matter what race or background, you've got his back as he has yours, trust can be the difference in life or death out there......love this song, an all time favourite

  • this hits home so much with having a brother who was over there and many friends who r still there

  • Its not from a movie. Its Rise Against's sort of documentary about the war in Iraq.

  • does anyone know what film th vid is from. it looks really good

  • first time ive heard this song but its my new fav lol

  • an ammazing song one of the best i have ever heard and verry mooving and makes you think bout our men in afgan.

  • this is amazing. is this in the hurt locker?? cause if it is then it deserves an oscar.

  • its not hurt locker cos ive seen tht but this looks a really good film tho

  • this is one of the most emotional songs i know.. and it touches me everytime i hear it deep inside :'(

    so wonderful!

  • greatest video i've ever seen - amazing

  • great song, great video by a great band

  • wats so funny?

  • -cry... i've never heard this before... but this video is amazing.. :(

  • such an honest, truthfully and meaningful song. it will be one to remember and one to remind us why they sing.

  • Beautiful music and a truly stirring video.

  • i dont really like this song but il pay my respects as this is about war and i can see hwta people have to go through at these times

  • i'm gonna see them in concert they r amazin

  • to right...!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Shut up, all you twats that care, that they dont look right, it shows war,and the sadness and terror, nothing funny, or exciting, and as i imagine, not pleasurable experience even if Cod4 is fun "puhh"

    Anyway a fantastic video, with an amazing moral, and brilliant singing.

  • seriously mate do u think we give a crap about how they are dressed, its still getting the point across about war

  • shut up, its a video, not some kid's game called cod4.

  • the most moving song and video ever, so touching and just amazing by the best band in the world

  • am gettin these lyrics tattooed on my back iv cryed so much to this

  • By the way the soldier in this video is really hot

  • i think this song is about how war can poison the minds of everybody. Rise Against wanted to show what really happens and they felt a song needed to be created to show the world the truth. War is wrong people die protecting a country thats not worth protecting.

  • i really love that song, its so touching. makes me wanna cry tbh

  • In Europe America is shown like this. People who think Bush is the greatest and it´s worth to fight for his lies. Too shoot innocent people with pride and patriotism.

    Thank God, that there is Obama!

  • Obama has increased the number of troops on the ground in Iraq...he was saying he was gonna withdraw the troops but he went back on that...understandably so...but he just said that cuz it's a trend right now to be against this war..no one likes war but their are those who realize that some situations need to end by a soldiers gun

  • @musicforthemassas000

    wow ur an ignorant pig.

    i hope you realize that in obamas time in office he has actually made things worse, for civillians and the war. know what you're

    talking about before you bash a president and promote another.

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  • this song make me cry. because it´s about the truth

  • what a wonderful and meaningful and storytelling song. it tells the truth about war and those soldiers who fight for their country. that life they´re have isn´t that easy life we´re all living. what they are going through is hell and i would not walk in their shoes. because of this I really appreciate those men.

    i´m against war and i think it´s great that there are bands who are supporting the soldiers.

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  • this isn't about showing that war isnt the answer...papasuito is a idiot..this shows that many soldiers come home with effects that a lot of people don't know about..my bro is coming home from iraq in a little over a month and i think of him when i hear this song..but he knew what he was signing up for and is in good condition...some people are to weak for the military..the military will take any1 who signs up for it...some people are not meant for it tho

  • The message that was by the band actually said: "Support the troops, end the war". So basically they are saying war isnt the answer, cos of the way the troops are groomed and treated and its unfair on them and civillians and other people. And killing people for a cause is NEVER the answer.

  • ok..i read their myspace thing that said it wasen't about the war it's about the soldier..just look at the video..it's about that one soldier...this is gonna sound harsh but some soldiers are dumbass..my bro in Iraq says that the majority are like this..the idiots are called "body bags"..cuz that's what they are gonna end up in..Killing is the answer in some cases..

  • I think there are two ways to interpret the story in this song. One: its about the soldiers who fight with pride for their country and they think there is no better life than fight and kill. They want acceptance and think they are the best. Two: it´s about the soldiers which goes to iraque or afghanistan and have to kill and fight although they´re to weak to do that. They come home and their souls are damaged because they cannot deal with war.

    But everybody is proud of them

  • agree...It's a sweet video cuz people get something different out of it than others..it's sweet

  • awesome song. rise against is still one of the greatest bands ever and that after 8 years. Tim has the greatest voice i've ever heard and the every song is perfect. Great lycrics...i don't know what to say. Amazing.

  • this song shows the war is not the answer. you say your keeping the peace, but all you are doing is creating a bigger problem for the world.

  • great video!

  • I seen this song over and over, and I even got to tears the first times. its a really god song, and I come from Norway so it says much

  • thank a soldier today

  • :'( cuz is in marines sadddd

  • can't believe that still new songs like this one are coming out. unbelievable good. it made me cry, cry about this ignorant world

  • Oh so awesome

  • awesome band awesome song awesome video

  • powerful song and powerful video to go with it, i'm seeing them on july 11th... can't wait, love these guys to death!

  • This is beautiful. Such an amazing song. Has a lot of meaning. Can't wait to see Rise Against on the 4th of June!!!!! :D :D

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