Continued from mt Not So Forgotten War of 1812 blog.
His father was Hunert Keith (H.K.) Covel, who was killed in a car crash in March of 2001.
It took Toby Keith twenty minutes to write the song.
At first, he refused to record it and only played it at concerts for American military, but it was a huge hit among them. The Commandant of the USMC, James L. Jones, told him it was his duty as an American citizen to record the song.
This song helped spark problems between correspondent Peter Jennings and the country group Dixie Chicks.
Continued in Cooter's History Thing blog.
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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