Avenged Sevenfold - M.I.A. - REACTION

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  • @matthewneely
    @matthewneely 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
    The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and, I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule.
    But these are some of the things they do. They build your basic character. They mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation's defense. They make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid.
    They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success; not to substitute words for action; not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm, but to have compassion on those who fall; to master yourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future, yet never neglect the past; to be serious, yet never take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.
    They give you a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life, a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, an appetite for adventure over love of ease.
    They create in your heart the sense of wonder, the unfailing hope of what next, and the joy and inspiration of life. They teach you in this way to be an officer and a gentleman.
    And what sort of soldiers are those you are to lead? Are they reliable? Are they brave? Are they capable of victory?
    Their story is known to all of you. It is the story of the American man at arms. My estimate of him was formed on the battlefield many, many years ago, and has never changed. I regarded him then, as I regard him now, as one of the world's noblest figures; not only as one of the finest military characters, but also as one of the most stainless.
    His name and fame are the birthright of every American citizen. In his youth and strength, his love and loyalty, he gave all that mortality can give. He needs no eulogy from me, or from any other man. He has written his own history and written it in red on his enemy's breast.
    But when I think of his patience under adversity, of his courage under fire, and of his modesty in victory, I am filled with an emotion of admiration I cannot put into words. He belongs to history as furnishing one of the greatest examples of successful patriotism. He belongs to posterity as the instructor of future generations in the principles of liberty and freedom. He belongs to the present, to us, by his virtues and by his achievements.
    In campaigns, on a hundred battlefields, around a thousand campfires, I have witnessed that enduring fortitude, that patriotic self-abnegation, and that invincible determination which have carved his statue in the hearts of his people. From one end of the world to the other, he has drained deep the chalice of courage.
    As I listened to those songs, in memory's eye I could see those staggering columns of the War, bending under soggy packs on many a weary march, from dripping dusk to drizzling dawn, slogging ankle-deep through the mire of shell-pocked roads, to form grimly for the attack, blue-lipped, covered with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind and rain, driving home to their objective, and for many, to the judgment seat of God.
    I do not know the dignity of their birth, but I do know the glory of their death. They died unquestioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their hearts, and on their lips the hope that we would go on to victory.
    Always for them: Duty, Honor, Country. Always their blood, and sweat, and tears, as we sought the way and the light and the truth. And twenty years after, on the other side of the globe, again the filth of murky foxholes, the stench of ghostly trenches, the slime of dripping dugouts, those broiling suns of relentless heat, those torrential rains of devastating storms, the loneliness and utter desolation of jungle trails, the bitterness of long separation of those they loved and cherished, the deadly pestilence of tropical disease, the horror of stricken areas of war.
    Their resolute and determined defense, their swift and sure attack, their indomitable purpose, their complete and decisive victory - always victory, always through the bloody haze of their last reverberating shot, the vision of gaunt, ghastly men, reverently following your password of Duty, Honor, Country.
    The code which those words perpetuate embraces the highest moral law and will stand the test of any ethics or philosophies ever promoted for the uplift of mankind. Its requirements are for the things that are right, and its restraints are from the things that are wrong. The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training: sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death, he disposes those divine attributes which his Maker gave when he created man in His own image. No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of the divine help which alone can sustain him. However hard the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
    You now face a new world, a world of change. The thrust into outer space of the satellite spheres and missiles mark a beginning of another epoch in the long story of mankind. In the five or more billions of years the scientists tell us it has taken to form the earth, in the three or more billion years of development of the human race, there has never been a more abrupt or staggering evolution. We deal now, not with things of this world alone, but with the illimitable distances and as yet unfathomed mysteries of the universe. We are reaching out for a new and boundless frontier. We speak in strange terms: of harnessing the cosmic energy; of making winds and tides work for us; of creating unheardº synthetic materials to supplement or even replace our old standard basics; to purify sea water for our drink; of mining the ocean floors for new fields of wealth and food; of disease preventatives to expand life into the hundreds of years; of controlling the weather for a more equitable distribution of heat and cold, of rain and shine; of spaceships to the Moon; of the primary target in war, no longer limited to the armed forces of an enemy, but instead to include his civil populations;​ of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy; of such dreams and fantasies as to make life the most exciting of all time.
    And through all this welter of change and development your mission remains fixed, determined, inviolable. It is to win our wars. Everything else in your professional career is but corollary to this vital dedication. All other public purposes, all other public projects, all other public needs, great or small, will find others for their accomplishment; but you are the ones who are trained to fight. Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory, that if you lose, the Nation will be destroyed, that the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country.
    Others will debate the controversial issues, national and international, which divide men's minds. But serene, calm, aloof, you stand as the Nation's war guardians, as its lifeguards from the raging tides of international conflict, as its gladiators in the arena of battle. For a century and a half you have defended, guarded and protected its hallowed traditions of liberty and freedom, of right and justice. Let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of our processes of government: whether our strength is being sapped by deficit financing indulged in too long, by federal paternalism grown too mighty, by power groups grown too arrogant, by politics grown too corrupt, by crime grown too rampant, by morals grown too low, by taxes grown too high, by extremists grown too violent; whether our personal liberties are as firm and complete as they should be; these great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution. Your guidepost stands out like a tenfold beacon in the night: Duty, Honor, Country.
    This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  • @chrismeadows4216
    @chrismeadows4216 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    And All Things Will End is an absolute banger that I haven't seen anyone do. I'd love to get your take on it, if you'd do us the honor.

    • @ZakM9
      @ZakM9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You got that right!

  • @threeRcar
    @threeRcar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Avenged Sevenfold is my favorite band of all time, next up you should listen to either Bat Country or Beast and The Harlot. Bat Country is one of the songs that really took them to fame and beast and the harlot is one of my favorites.

  • @Christian_6702
    @Christian_6702 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Danger line is another great song by them you should react to.

  • @TheRealBrotherGrimmy
    @TheRealBrotherGrimmy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    God i can't believe this album came out 15 years ago 😓 it was one of the first albums I tried learning (miserably I might add. Solo guitarist I am definitely not.) In its entirety on guitar. I have all the rhythm down... but my fingers just don't work good enough to solo :-/
    Also i don't care what anyone says. Afterlifes's solo is incredible, yes. But this is hands down... wait no damn. This is my second favorite a7x solo. Strength of the world will always be my #1

  • @ӇЄ0Ӈ-ф5в
    @ӇЄ0Ӈ-ф5в 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A7X is a national treasure......approach "Little Piece of Heaven" with caution tho👊🏻🔥😜

  • @gloriebluestein9721
    @gloriebluestein9721 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I mean look at the Christian crusades....

    • @NeroReacts
      @NeroReacts  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤔

    • @viikmaqic
      @viikmaqic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dont USA always say "God be with us" or something like that? Even before shipping out troops etc

    • @thegamingwubba
      @thegamingwubba ปีที่แล้ว

      @@viikmaqic”in god we trust”

    • @thegamingwubba
      @thegamingwubba ปีที่แล้ว

      2 years late

    • @gloriebluestein9721
      @gloriebluestein9721 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thegamingwubba which was added during the cold War to appear more righteous then the godless communists. (I don't agree with it ...I didn't say the pledge in school. I'm Jewish and that's the Christian God they toting)

  • @poopahskoopahh8563
    @poopahskoopahh8563 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I say all their songs tell a story both musically and lyrically

  • @rolandjmusic5336
    @rolandjmusic5336 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Avenged sevenfold I see you tonight part1 is amazing bro

  • @_coartstudio
    @_coartstudio 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    #Hardrock #Rockbands #Metal #Punk #Rockmusicians #Heavymetal #Guitarist #Rockmusic #Rocknroll #Punkmusic #Bands Nero-Ninja this was a good pick lol! ✔️👌🏾👍🏾 A very euphonious band; with great musicianship. Great power and control it's all there. The lead singer vocally have a great tone and really good control on the high notes, a great overall performance. If i wasn't creating art, i probably would want to be a musician. No cap! I often think of music. I live my daydreams in music. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. I'm suggesting you should to react to the song ''Adrenaline'' by Gavin Rossdale. Lets get Nero to 10k!

  • @aricv574
    @aricv574 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    great reaction man! if your doing A7X songs. you have to listen to Exist off the Stage album.

  • @ExternalTooth
    @ExternalTooth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You lost me at the end... Completely...