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to really not like the military wive's song...

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KittyFane · 06/12/2011 18:45

I LOVE Gareth Malone and love choirs and I think it's great how he has put it all together but I don't like the song at all.
I feel unreasonable as I am being made to feel ( by constant press/ radio coverage) that I should love it.
I don't even like it.
Anyone else or just me?

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KittyFane · 06/12/2011 20:54

Weren't

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herbietea · 06/12/2011 20:55

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pranma · 06/12/2011 20:56

Well I find it very moving-not great poetry but the product of genuine emotion and sung from the hearts of the wives.I have ordered it.

miSaltireandwine · 06/12/2011 20:56

Erm mine isn't techie, but I'll join the club anywayXmas Grin

FreudianSlipper · 06/12/2011 20:56

its pants

yes great cause but i woudl have thought a better more up to date song could have been produced

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KittyFane · 06/12/2011 20:57

Argy
wives' Tis my iPhone (!) you try it!

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GingerWrath · 06/12/2011 20:58

As I have said on here in other threads, the 'you know what you are getting into when you joined' doesn't cut it.

When my DH and I joined, the worst we were looking at was a 4/6 month trip to the Falklands every 7 years.

When Afghan/Iraq kicked off, we were over halfway towards qualifying for a pension at 22 years.

Now, I am no longer in, but DH is 6 weeks away from getting his pension. Hardly worth leaving now is it?

LRDtheFeministDragon · 06/12/2011 21:00

Btw, I find Gareth Malone an annoyingly sexist shite, and this has reminded me - does anyone know if it's coincidence they're all military wives not husbands? I guess there must be loads more wives. It's just my mate's wife is in the military and their baby will be old enough to remember Christmas for the first time this year, and last I heard he was missing her quite a bit, so I'm thinking of him.

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AitchTwoOHoHoHo · 06/12/2011 21:01

well if i was producing a song for the queen i'd go with a more trad feel, and if i was doing it knowing that i might bring out a charity single eventually i would deffo do it to capitalise on the christmas charts and christmas compilation albums of the future.

GingerWrath · 06/12/2011 21:01

Sorry miSaltire think will stick to the wedgewood blue club instead!

miSaltireandwine · 06/12/2011 21:01

Ginger DH has been in 26 years and when he joined up the threat to the UK was Irish terrorists and the Cold War! never in a million years did he think he'd be fighting in a war in Europe, far less the middle east

LRDtheFeministDragon · 06/12/2011 21:03

ginger - cross-posted with you but yes, I can imagine that is very hard. A friend of mine felt the same way about Iraq and I remember how upset he was when it all started. I agree it's not really on to say people 'knew what they signed up for' as the nature of war has obviously changed so much.

You have my sympathy.

GingerWrath · 06/12/2011 21:03

ffs, I never joined to fight and die. I was an Air Traffic Controller not bloody Rambo!

GingerWrath · 06/12/2011 21:04

Thanks LRD, when you are 19 and sign on the dotted line, danger is a million miles away.

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KittyFane · 06/12/2011 21:07

Hmm, off topic ( because this thread is about Gareth but I'd have thought anyone joining up would know what they are signing up for and expect it to happen- i.e. the worst possible senario. Surely?

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LRDtheFeministDragon · 06/12/2011 21:07

I can imagine.

I find it difficult because I've said that sort of thing before and people have been offended and said no, they chose the military and knew exactly what they were getting into. And I am sure that is true of a lot of people. But I doubt it will be true of many of these women, who don't really have a choice about it at all.

LottieJenkins · 06/12/2011 21:08

I love the song...........It makes me cry everytime i hear it, i have pre-ordered it!!!

forceslover · 06/12/2011 21:09

At least I never have to wake up and think oh god I'm married to a banker!

GingerWrath · 06/12/2011 21:09

Kitty no, you don't, I joined 10 years before 9/11. We were busy feeling sad about Freddy Mercury dying when I was in Recruit Training. I could never have predicted the world changing so much when I was 19.

aurynne · 06/12/2011 21:10

I have just listened to it in YouTube. I share the sentiment and believe it was very touching from the armed forces' wives. However, I can't get past calling the soldiers (or however you call the members of the Forces) "princes of peace". Ironic, hypocritical and frankly offensive for all the people who get killed in conflicts. I doubt the civilians in a war zone see any soldier as a "prince of peace", no matter how good their intentions.

GingerWrath · 06/12/2011 21:11

Sorry it was 20 years before 9/11, I am so old

grovel · 06/12/2011 21:11

Isn't the point that this is a choir who did not audition and got together to take their minds off what was happening in their lives and to be mutually supportive?

Brilliant - and the singing is obviously amateur but not bad at all. I'm moved. Yes, I don't love the song. At all. Hardly the choir's fault.

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GingerWrath · 06/12/2011 21:17

No I was right in the first place Blush, I give up, maths is not my forte!