If the sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and Creedence Clearwater Revival represented the music of U.S. service members in Vietnam, rap may become the defining pulse for the war in Iraq, says Monica Davey in the N.Y. Times (3/2/05). Service members turning to rap to express, fear, aggression, resentment and exhaustion, has become a common part of life during nearly two years of war in Iraq. "Rap is the one place," said Javorn Drummond, an Army specialist from Wade, N.C., "where you can get out your aggravation -- your anger at the people who outrank you, your frustration at the Iraqi people who just didn't understand what we were doing. You could get out everything." [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham