Songs That Make This Sergeant Cry

Yeah I cry! So what?!? Shut up!

Published on July 11, 2004 By greywar In Current Events

While I often like to pretend that I am physically incapable of strong emotion, it is simply not true. These songs will reduce me to tears while I am stone-cold sober (even more so after a drink or two) :

Toby Keith : American Soldier

Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue

Lee Greenwoood : God Bless the USA

Rush : Tom Saywer (due to the death of a friend)

Alan Jackson : Where were you? (9/11 tribute song)

SSG Barry Sadler: Silver Wings

What songs reduce you to tears? Or what movies? I know the Delta characters in BlackHawk Down make me cry due to a feeling of inadequacy. (note to the Department of the Army: Please raise my RCP to 20 years! I want to *stay*! Hell raise it to 40! I would stay that long too! )

Comments (Page 1)

CS Guy

on Jul 11, 2004

know the Delta characters in BlackHawk Down make me cry due to a feeling of inadequacy.

Agreed, but at the same time that depiction of those characters made me proud to be an American.

Sleepless in Seattle makes me cry. The scene where Tom Hanks is telling the talk-radio host about his dead wife, who had died from cancer. The first time I saw that was at a friends house for "movie night". It was two months after my fiance had died because of cancer.

Climax Blues Band's I Love You does it to me as well... that was "our song", and it pretty much mirrors our relationship.

For some reason, The Little Drummer Boy always makes me cry. That image of the boy giving Jesus his drum just jerks those tears for me.

greywar

on Jul 11, 2004

Thanks CS - Most guys don't have the sack to admit that anything will make them cry...

CS Guy

on Jul 11, 2004

Thanks CS - Most guys don't have the sack to admit that anything will make them cry...

It takes a big man to admit he cries. It takes a bigger man to make fun of that fellow.

greywar

on Jul 11, 2004

CS - Off topic but do you work in "the Building"? If you do we may have closer ties than you think, my wife works there too.

Community - Please I *really* want to know... I will actually respond when you post to this thread as opposed to most "question" threads!

CS Guy

on Jul 11, 2004

CS - Off topic but do you work in "the Building"? If you do we may have closer ties than you think, my wife works there too.

I'm not sure what "the Buidling" is. I can think of a couple of "the" sites here, "the Mountain" being the most prominent, but my building would not be considered "the" anything.

greywar

on Jul 11, 2004

hmm probably not the place I was thinking of but in any case, glad to have you on our side friend.

Gene Nash

on Jul 11, 2004

This sounds like something I'd rather spend some time thinking about and then write up on my own blog. I probably will.

But off the top of my head....

Movies:
* Well, as I said on one of PoetMom's question threads the first time I remember crying about a movie was when the dancer's teacher died in Flashdance.
* Lancelot coming in at the last second to rescue Guinevere from being burned alive in Camelot always gets to me.
* The last time I watched Superman: The Movie seeing Lois Lane get squished in the fault line got to me. Don't know if it was so much that or Superman breaking down once he finds her.
* You know that moment in Jaws where the shark has just eaten the little boy on the inflatable thing? Everyone has rushed out of the water. Things are claming down. People are looking at each other like "What happened?" And the little boy's mother is vainly calling his name? Damn -- that's just not right. Also in Jaws, when the chief's wife has sent their sons into a smaller "bay" like section thinking they'll be safe but the shark shows up there and the chief is running over to see if his kids are alive. Yeah, that too.
* The ending of 2010 (Dr. Floyd's message to his kids -> the credits).
* "Notting Hill" -- when the crazy roommate jumps out in the middle of a busy road and stops traffic so Hugh Grant can get through and try to stop Julia Roberts from leaving. I couldn't believe anyone would actually do that for a friend. Chokes me up.
* Rocky II -- Adrian, who was opposed to Rocky fighting any more, comes out a coma and tells Rocky she just wants him to do one thing -- "Win."

Songs:
* Marty Robbins has a song about the The Alamo that gets me every time -- just like the place itself does. All those men -- American legends and ordinary folks -- refusing to leave, waiting for help that isn't coming.
* "Mary Did You Know?"
* Garth Brooks' "In Lonesome Dove." I can't even try singing that. A couple lines and my voice is cracking. "She was a girl on a wagon train, headed west..." damn there I go again....

greywar

on Jul 11, 2004

gene- those are great ones too...

Poetmom99

on Jul 11, 2004

What songs reduce you to tears? Or what movies?

Both Toby Keith songs you mentioned, as well as the Lee Greenwood and Alan Jackson songs.....also "There Goes My Life," Kenny Chesney, and "Streets of Heaven,"....but I can't think of the female artist who sings that one right this minute....Alan Jackson's "Remember When".....

Movies:
Bridges of Madison County
Beaches
Steel Magnolias
Camelot

There are more in both categories, but these are just quickly off the top of my head.

pseudosoldier

on Jul 11, 2004

Pretty much any movie that shows a true hero sacrificing for others. Black Hawk Down was rough for me, although it was rougher when I read the book (which I did first, back at DLI). The book goes to even greater lengths to show you enough about each soldier, to make them real to you, and then it slaps you in the face with their deaths.
But I've totten teary over other stupid hero stuff, too. Spider-Man 2 got to me, ferchrissakes.

It's an interesting theory you have there, grey, about a lot of that stemming from feelings of inadequacy...

CS Guy

on Jul 11, 2004

Another song I thought of is Evanescence's My Last Breath... about a dying girl saying her goodbyes to the man she loves. I think I've got a theme going on.

xtine

on Jul 11, 2004

Everything makes me cry...even the Gecko commercials...I'm such a sap.

Stein6

on Jul 11, 2004

The scene in Somewhere in Time-(Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour) where she realizes he is gone is good one for bringing tears...hell, just thinking about it makes me get misty eyed.

3 Doors Down-When I'm Gone. The song is bad enough but the video is full of military separations/goodbyes

Of course, being knocked up and hormonal makes me cry when I see car commercials.........

Poetmom99

on Jul 11, 2004

The scene in Somewhere in Time-(Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour) where she realizes he is gone is good one for bringing tears...hell, just thinking about it makes me get misty eyed.

Oh gosh....I forgot about that movie.....I LOVE that movie....and yes, that makes me cry, too!!

Gene Nash

on Jul 11, 2004

I LOVE that movie....and yes, that makes me cry, too!!

One of my all time favorite movies! I've always meant to read the book. I love Richard Matheson's work.

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