I Drive Your Truck - Lee Brice

I've been familiar with this song for quite a while but what I did not know was:

A: the song was about Army Sergeant 1st Class Jared Monti and his father Paul
B: Jared Monti was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery
C: Paul Monti lives in Brocton, Mass
D: Paul Monti wasn't aware the song even existed for 2-years after the song's release

The more you know about the song the more poignant it becomes.

Memorial Day Links

Some stuff to keep in mind today while you are stuffing your face at a cookout.

- Borepatch has the story of Sgt. Jared Monti and the connection to the Lee Brice song I Drive Your Truck

- Mitchell Paige American hero and the face of the GI Joe doll. Where do we find such men?

- Marine General speaks first hand from a broken heart at memorial's dedication

- 10 Things to Remember about Memorial Day

- In my own boyhood, figures such as Jimmy Doolittle, Audie Murphy and John Basilone were household names. And it was assumed that what they had done defined us as well as them, telling us what kind of nation we were. But the 110 Medal recipients alive today are virtually unknown except for a niche audience of warfare buffs. Their heroism has become the military equivalent of genre painting. There's something wrong with that.