![]() ![]() Then I went into my house, picked up my guitar and started strumming. I was so happy, I ran out into my little patch of lawn and turned cartwheels. I was finally out! This was 1968 and people were still dying. One day, I saw the envelope and bent down to look at it, noticing it said 'John Fogerty.' I went into the house, opened the thing up, and saw that it was my honorable discharge from the Army. ![]() It sat there for a couple of days, right next to my door. "The Army and Creedence overlapped, so I was 'that hippie with a record on the radio.' I'd been trying to get out of the Army, and on the steps of my apartment house sat a diploma-sized letter from the government. ![]() Fogerty recalls in Bad Moon Rising: The Unofficial History of Creedence Clearwater Revival by Hank Bordowitz: Fogerty had been drafted in 1966 and was part of a Reserve unit, serving at Fort Bragg, Fort Knox, and Fort Lee. The song came together on the day that John Fogerty got his discharge papers from the US Army. ![]()
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