No, I'm not delusional but in my songwriting I usually try to include something about our troops. I have a master plan in my writing Christmas Songs and I have written 12 of them. The last holiday song that I wrote, " Ho, Ho, Ho! Yes...No, No, Snow!" I wrote the Key of E with the second chorus being in the Key of A. There was a prelude, 3 verses, Bridge, Chorus and 2nd chorus. and I got an award for the song. On TV recently I have seen a commercial for the USO with a soldier in a Humvee that is in a desert area and he stops at the USO place(?) and you hear laughter. This is somehow how as I imagined what it might be like for military personnel without being in a snowy area and this is uncanny to see, wonderfully fun. This is how I saw it in my mind. Here's the 2nd verse:

Night vision goggles brighten rocky ridged desert.
Humvee rolls down the road with platoon in concert.
Temps soar for young GIs as Christmas Eve approaches.
Rain is forecast but he hears some USO laughs.

I actually referenced deserts in Iraq on the internet. There are wadis etc. and one southern desert is rocky and ridged. There is no platoon in the ad but to me after working with Militaryfamillies.com on learning about planes such as C-14 cargo planes? etc. for writing "Christmas Special Delivery," in 2003 it sure is like seeing something that I thought materializing and it's wonderful. No, the ad doesn't include the bridge of, "ice crusted gloves shoveling, snow plowing, snow blowing. Cold storm growing I don't miss it when it's snowing!" This is just an after thought. Soldiersradio.com sent me Holiday card in 2003 and the U.S. Army's Christmas CD. Notice how he takes off his gear when he enters the USO place? (Maybe 'cause it's warm?)

Kind of uncanny seeing something you create visualized other than just listening to it! I'm just pleased! Does anyone see the correlation? I sure do...and thanks for the USO as they assist with so many military families. Currently I'm writing an election song. Also this year another Christmas song(probably gospel rock) coming as my ideas outweigh my work. Brainstorming as usual and it helps that I can write notes as easily as I write words. I keep thinking of M. Jackson's talk on TV when he spoke of the baseline beat....hook of "Billie Jean." He was all music, being a great hero of mine and I am just the songwriter.

Just thought that this was unusual but maybe only I saw the correlation. I can't imagine what Stephan King thought when he saw "Carrie" or Tom Clancy thought of when he saw "The Hunt For Red October" produced.

I probably am imagining things seeing this ad but it sure is uncanny.....as that's what I thought of what it might be like in a no temperate zoned place for the military outside of the mentioned platoon because I was depicting places people are at where there might not be snow. It all fit into the song, and I'm am proud to have included my 2nd verse about overseas troops.

More than anything I hope the USO gets it's message across. This is the point of the ad!
Wow.....kind of pleased....though....right after I wrote it in 2008. What do you think?