Though a little outdated (it references older relics from the Bush administration as current events), this piece is nothing if not vivid. The speaker seems pained for clarity, for resonance. At first, I found this offputting, but as the piece continued, I found the piece more and more vivid, only enhanced by the deliberate pace. The voice we hear is ominous, tired, dark. You can almost hear the plane's engines humming loudly in the background behind the speaker's words, breaths. Sometimes a piece doesn't grab you right away, but slowly enfolds you into its style, tone, mood, achieving better results than if it had grabbed you immediately. This is such a piece.

Would fit in well to a perspectives on war montage. It's certainly anit-Bush, but it moves away from that as it arrives at the real meat of the piece--a soldier describing the effect his death has on his survivors. This piece is substancial; it couldn't just be thrown in anywhere. It would need to be part of something larger.