I saw this video on various blogs, and it’s impressed me enough that I want to share it with you if you haven’t seen it:

This is Beccy Cole. I’m not a big fan of country music these days, and to try to classify this young pretty little Australian girl as a country singer is in my thinking, a bit of a stretch, but that’s how she’s tagged. I don’t care. Her song is beautifully written, and it’s sung with with a plaintive tone and a pleasant voice.

She did a “reverse Dixie Chick” and went to visit her Australian soldiers, “diggers” at war “on the wrong side of the world”. Apparently a “fan” castigated her and claimed to take her poster off the wall. She sings:

“and the digger fights for freedom,
in a job that must be done.
And I let go of his hand so proud to be Australian.

And if unlike me you feel no pride at all,
then go ahead and take me off your wall.

Because I prefer to be a poster girl on the wrong side of the world.”

I’d trade a million Dixie Chicks, Jane Fondas, Barbra Streisands, and the whole bunch of the Hollyweird Left, the limousine liberals and every dimmocrat vote-sucker pandering to the useless dregs of our society for his re-election, just for one little girl like this, who shook hands with her country’s soldiers and came off feeling proud for her country.