Rock Upset About Troops Performance Snub Message Board and Comments

My son is stationed at Ramstein AFB in Germany. He called me this a.m. all excited that Kid Rock and Zac Brown Band were performing on base. Zac Brown was on stage singing Country Fried. "Can you hear it? Can you hear it? He was elated. How dare this judge deny the men and women selflessly serving our country, the pleasure of this musician performing?! He should be ashamed of himself. These men and women are away from their families and loved ones. How dare he deny them the simple joy of music!!!

To the judge: Alvin, are you ready to go to Iraq and sing? Are you feeling any itch at all to go to Iraq for any other reason ? Probably not--You're nice and snug here, nobody is shooting at you and the chance of a bomb going off anywhere near you is passing slim. At first glance one can see how you might think allowing Mr. Rock/Mr. Ritchie to do his community service by performing for the troops as a vacation of sorts, but consider deeper: He will be in a dangerous area, a dangerous area HE chose, giving his fellow American's something to smile about at a time they have little enough to smile about, and I'll let alone the polemics here and stick to the subject at hand. Is it possible for him to make a greater contribution to his, YOUR, country by wearing an orange jump-suit and picking up trash on the side of I-75 or maybe collating for the Atlanta Daily Journal ? Dirt on his hands? Ink on his fingers ? I ask you to reconsider. Let him make some people happy and trust to the climate that his eyes will be full of sand. Lynn Stover