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Turner

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZTyfrg06Xc]

A couple of weeks ago I saw the above video on YouTube (redirected from a story on Digg.com at the time). Something struck me in watching and listening to Jon Turner’s testimony of his first confirmed kill in Iraq. It’s a chilling video to watch. I felt a chilling mixture of emotions in it.

In any case, the idea stuck with me the following Sunday as we played music and at one point I started coming up with a kind of picture of perhaps how Turner, or another soldier like him, might feel in any wartime situation. Perhaps I had it all wrong, as I’ve never been in combat and couldn’t hope to fully understand what one would feel in this kind of situation, but these words just sort of came out as we were jamming.

I love the tone of the music Neil and Jeremy set here. Neil has some crushingly oppressive and militant drums pounding and Jeremy’s keys feel ghostly reminiscent of some of Ray Manzarek’s darker moods with the Doors.