Yesterday while we were in Seattle WA (one of my favorite cities!) I had an extremely inspiring experience. At El Corazon before it was time for us to play I met up with some guys at the bar and had a few drinks with them. They told me that they had just got home from a 1 year long tour in Iraq serving for our country.

One of them told me that our music is one of the things that helped them through their rough days and their great days. He said “People like you are the reason that I go to Iraq for our country. People that I care about that impact my life in a positive way. Your bands music has had an impact on my life and I go to defend our country so people like you can continue to do what you do here in America.” And then what he said next legitimately made me tear up. He said “Next time you are having a bad day or feel like you’re going to have a bad show, think about us. We go over seas to fight for our country and the thing that pumps us up the most is YOUR MUSIC. It gets us through our days and helps us find comfort and safety. If you ever walk on stage and are bummed out no matter where you are, please sing it louder for me.”

Wow. I didn’t even know what to say back to him so I gave him the biggest hug ever and tried my best to hide the fact that I was tearing up. Haha. It just makes me think that so many people including myself sometimes are and have been very apathetic and unsupportive about whats going on over there. I’m a lover and not a fighter and I’m sure a lot of you guys feel the same way but we can’t ever forget that the reason people that serve for our country are over there doing what they do is so the rest of us back here that they love can continue on living our lives. My point of this whole blog is that it is so easy to take the simple things for granted. I do it, you do it, we all do it. If anyone can tell me they’ve never done it then you are a fucking liar. I just think we all need to sit back a little bit more than we do and think about how beautiful and important the little things in life are and support and thank the people who help make these little things possible by going over seas to defend our country. I know I will.

PB



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