minutes in my gym on a back of a fantasy football sheet. and i knew when i started doing it, i could sing it for the military. and it would be kind of like some of the army songs my father told me they played back in the day. and i played a little show for them. i got done, and said you guys are shipping off to afghanistan tomorrow. and the marines said, yeah. and play played this for the first time. the band didn't even know. i played it for the first time on guitar. they threw their hats in the air, their fists in the air. and commandant came over and said the whole military needs to hear this song. i took it home, prayed about it for a while, thought what am i going to do, and just going back to commandant jones and kept thinking if it's that important to him, it must be important to