Craig Morgan

That's all I wanted to do was jump out of planes and be in the army and kill bad guys.

And I'm doing this.

But again, this is God.

This is the way God does stuff, man.

He'll get you even when you don't think you want to be a part of it.

I go up there and I write this song and I sing it at the Test Platoon Banquet.

And the 82nd Airborne Choir comes marching in.

Boom, boom, ba-doom, boom, boom.

And they sing it and I play the song.

A cassette tape of that song is in the museum in Fort Benning, Georgia.

Oh.

the infantry museum that's amazing but i was in the army and i didn't think nothing about music then i was just doing that to get over yeah i mean because every time instead of having to stand in line to go up to the tower to do my 250 foot tower jump they put me in the front of the line i would go do my jump front of the line do my jump that day do my stuff i had to do and then i would go set up the white house and work on this song like i was something special

What was special about all of that, that no one would know would consider special except for us was my parents.

Couldn't be there when I graduated, you know, they both worked, which wasn't a big deal.

You know, I didn't, I didn't feel bad about it.

Ain't like I was the one guy soldier over there like this, you know, I didn't really care.

Um,

Back then, they did what they called blood wings.

When you got your wings, they would stick them right there, and then they'd pound them in your chest.

I mean, the little needle's only about a quarter inch, but they would pound them in your chest.