I wrote Fall in/Wounded Soldier a few weeks before performing a concert in the Hamptons (NY) in 2005 where there was a benefit for the Wounded Soldier Campaign. I was asked to ideally write something but told that singing something like “For what it’s worth” would be awesome as well. HA! How do you compete with that epic piece of music I thought! I don’t know what it is to be a soldier in war, though in life I certainly hope that we all do. The strength of the human spirit is something that puts me in awe in so many spine tingling moments and our strength and spirit to rise again once we have fallen is one that grabs me most.

I admire bravery, ones impeccable word, and love that can pour out like it has no end (because love is somehow never empty). Love with all your might.

Thank-you soldiers.

 

"Fall In/Sounded Soldier" from Melanie Dekker

Video conceptualized and produced by Christopher Buttner @ PRThatRocks.com

“Fall in / Wounded Soldier” was recorded at Sonoma Mountain Estate and is available on the ‘Revealed’ CD. Zabit records and CDbaby together donate $2 dollars for every CD sold to selected foundations that benefit wounded soldiers and their families. You can download the single song at iTunes or buy the CD from www.cdbaby.com/cd/dekker2 or from the STORE page here.


Comments and Feedback from our Veterans

“This song is a Remembrance day classic. It makes me want to hold hands with the whole world.”

                                                                                              -- Anonymous, Vancouver, Canada.

This comment was left by a Veteran's Father and Brother, THANK YOU for getting it ... Melanie Dekker.

“THIS is the reason the soldiers need our support to hell with the politicians always support our troops they and their families are the ones suffering not you who protest and make rude comments about how the soldiers are the ones to blame well look at the video and see with your own two eyes it isn't the politicians losing arms and legs it is the soldiers. AMEN to that, THEY bear the burdens, hardships and sacrifices. The families serve and suffer along with their loved ones in uniform. We ask so much of them, so much has been asked of US, the military families of this great nation. They are our Next Greatest Generation and on the behalf of a Grateful Nation (to HELL with the ungrateful) THANK YOU for your service to our great country .We will not leave YOU, we will not leave YOU WANTING...Thank you, Melanie Dekker, for a beautifully sung tribute to OURS...

"Thank you! This song means a lot to us veterans, you can not hear it without it touching your inner self."

                                                                                               --- Rick (Vietnam - 1968 Wounded Soldier)

"Melanie, I am one of the wounded soldiers that you sing about, I was wounded in Afghanistan, It has been a long road home for me, I just wanted to let you know that your song "Wounded Soldier" is amazing, and truly hits home for some of us. Thank You and God Bless You"

                                                                                                --- SFC Chris McHargue -- US ARMY