[ WP ] You thought learning the recorder in elementary school was some stupid music thing teachers made you do . It turns out they were training you for something else .

We all thought the recorder was just some stupid instrument the teachers made us learn to `` expand our experiences'' 
 We were wrong. 
 No one could have predicted the war, but some how our teachers knew. 
 All of that year learning, practicing, mastering the recorder would come back and save us. 
 The machines, monsters, I do n't know what to call them, they were invulnerable. Bullets could not stop them, explosions would not slow them down. We all thought hope was lost, but then the 9th grade Travis school kids came out. Formed rank and played. 
 It was ugly, it sounded horrible, and it looked bad. 
 But the music, no the noise, it overwhelmed our adversaries. It started to make them bleed and eventually weakened them and then we were able to win. 
 That's why we learn to play the recorder. As a nod to our heritage and the war. 
 
 `` But mr Thomson, why does n't Timmy have to learn'' 
 
 `` Oh his parents gave him a note'' 

