# Put silver wings on my son's chest - WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 4, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425 "2006-09-04T18:56:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/1 "2006-09-04T18:56:45Z")
[Ballad of the Green Berets](http://www.brownielocks.com/balladofthegreenberetsWAVE.html) What massive egotism! She’s lost her husband and now she’s supposed to sacrifice her kid? Yeah right! ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/2 "2006-09-04T19:01:35Z")
… Little late, aintcha? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/3 "2006-09-04T19:11:15Z")
Pitting a song that was a hit in 1966. That is impressive. What’s next, pitting the open theme to Star Trek from the same year because it says “where no \*\*Man \*\* has gone before”. Lame, very lame. Two sentences and a link does not make a good pitting. Why is it so terrible for a Proud Green Beret to want his son to grow up to be a Green Beret? I would not want to be one, I would prefer if my son was not one, but there is surely no shame in the accomplishment. Jim ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/4 "2006-09-04T19:12:25Z")
Are you going to begin **Pit** ting all the songs written when you were starting kindergarten, now? ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/5 "2006-09-04T19:13:32Z")
I love that song. The website though? Has GOT to go. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/6 "2006-09-04T19:18:23Z")
[QUOTE=astro] [Ballad of the Green Berets](http://www.brownielocks.com/balladofthegreenberetsWAVE.html) What massive egotism! She’s lost her husband and now she’s supposed to sacrifice her kid? Yeah right! [/QUOTE] Well, it could be worse, I have a relative that is traning to become a Green Beret. I asked him once “Did you ever considered the Marines?” he then said like if it was a matter of fact: - “Heck no! We call them “bullet catchers”” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/7 "2006-09-04T19:18:44Z")
C130 rollin down the strip Second Platoon gonna take a little trip Load up lock em down shuffle to the door Jump on out and shout “Marine Corps” If that chute don’t open wide I got another one by my side If that chute don’t blossom round I’ll be the first one to hit the ground Pin them medals upon my chest Tell my momma I done my best Don’t single out the Army, we’re all stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Firebringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@Firebringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Firebringer)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/8 "2006-09-04T19:21:05Z")
[QUOTE=BoBettie] I love that song. The website though? Has GOT to go. [/QUOTE] Yeah website is a bit on the garish side. Flag cursor on part of the site is neat though. Got to say I found the song quite stirring. Can see it could have real emotional power in certain circumstances. Even as a non-Yank I can still appreciate it. Lame pitting a song like that especially on timescale. What’s next “I pit the Romans for invading Gaul” “I pit gravity for making the moon so close that it affects the tides.” ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/9 "2006-09-04T19:21:55Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] Are you going to begin **Pit** ting all the songs written when you were starting kindergarten, now? [/QUOTE] It’s never too late to pit history boy! Bismarck’s polices are next! ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/10 "2006-09-04T19:28:21Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Pitting a song that was a hit in 1966. That is impressive. What’s next, pitting the open theme to Star Trek from the same year because it says “where no \*\*Man \*\* has gone before”. [/QUOTE] If you pit it for anything pit it for “to boldly go”. Around here you split an infinitive at your peril. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/11 "2006-09-04T19:30:39Z")
[QUOTE=Firebringer] Got to say I found the song quite stirring. [/QUOTE] The TV network TBS used to be a little more interesting back in the day. You should experience their old anthem from the 1980s, replete with vignettes of Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard beatin all hell out of Dusty Rhodes: _They’re the heeeeros of today A-merica looves to watch them plaay They’re the heeeroes of the naytion Super Spoooorts On Super Station!_ ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/12 "2006-09-04T19:45:04Z")
[QUOTE=Firebringer] Lame pitting a song like that especially on timescale. What’s next “I pit the Romans for invading Gaul” “I pit gravity for making the moon so close that it affects the tides.” [/QUOTe] Well, there go my next two pit threads. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/13 "2006-09-04T20:13:12Z")
[QUOTE=astro] It’s never too late to pit history boy! Bismarck’s polices are next! [/QUOTE] Yeah! They totally mislead the people by cherry-picking the intelligence coming out of Schleswig-Holstein! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/14 "2006-09-04T20:21:05Z")
Even 40 year old music can suck enough to be pitted. This one does. About the only songs from that era with schmaltzier lyrics were “Running Bear” by Johnny Preston and and “Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro. The Green Beret song is truly one of the most wretched pieces of crap ever to hit the airwaves. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/15 "2006-09-04T20:23:59Z")
Big Bang?! What good is it? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/16 "2006-09-04T20:32:35Z")
[QUOTE=BobLibDem] Even 40 year old music can suck enough to be pitted. This one does. About the only songs from that era with schmaltzier lyrics were “Running Bear” by Johnny Preston and and “Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro. The Green Beret song is truly one of the most wretched pieces of crap ever to hit the airwaves. [/QUOTE] Kung Fu Fighting? Disco Duck? Anything by the Village People? ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/17 "2006-09-04T21:00:55Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima] Well, there go my next two pit threads. ☹ [/QUOTE] Don’t feel so bad. You can always pit the Romans for razing Carthage. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/18 "2006-09-04T21:06:29Z")
[QUOTE=detop] Don’t feel so bad. You can always pit the Romans for razing Carthage. [/QUOTE] It’s just not the same, though. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/19 "2006-09-04T21:29:22Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Big Bang?! What good is it? [/QUOTE] I thought I’d go for something a bit less extreme: I Pit the Pangaean Drought and Resultant Desertification Didja click on it, thinking it was a link? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425/20 "2006-09-04T21:33:31Z")
I remember, Lord, how I remember. I would have pitted it then, but no such opportunity existed. It does bring up a recommendation, however. If you ever want to see a perfectly cunning piece of propaganda, exquisitely crafted…see John Wayne in _The Green Berets_. A masterpiece of mendacity, it inspired my cousin Clay to volunteer. I didn’t forgive The Duke until _True Grit_, which I just couldn’t resist. Tried, but couldn’t. Clay returned home safe, thank you for asking. Turns out he was a whizz at typing, spent his entire tour in Saigon. The experience enlightened his racial and political attitudes big time and downtown, he first introduced me to guys in Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. And so it goes… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-silver-wings-on-my-sons-chest-wtf/371425.md?page=2)