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To: dfwgator

That is great.

Did you write it?


21 posted on 04/29/2010 6:47:00 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: WayneS

Here is the background:

History of the song.

It was written on July 4, 1996 in Taszar Hungary at about 3 am in the office of the ODCSENG USAREUR (FWD) during Operation Joint Endeavor/Guard. LTC Jorge Guiterriez was setting at a desk trying to get a slide brief done on his computer and had about 250 slides he was trying to reduce. It was just too much information for one brief of about 15 minutes. So he had to chop them down to the bare minimum. So the song was dedicated to him. I know because I was the one who wrote the song. Since that time it has been all over the world, and I take great pride in the song. I was the night Engineer TOC Operations Officer for COL Johnson. He was from the 130th Engineers in Germany. Our staff came from the 412th Engineer Command in Vicksburg, MS. I was just an E-6 at the time. We gave LTC Guiterriez his retirement party yesterday in Vicksburg, MS and I dedicated a part II to the song just for him at his retirement, along with the remaining staff from that operation. There are only two in the unit now from then, the rest that were there with us are gone to play in the sand.

MSG Steven W. Rowland
412th Engineer Command
10 March 2003
(Power Point Ranger)


23 posted on 04/29/2010 6:50:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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