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The 100th Army Band has performed the National Anthem and Kentucky State Song, "My Old Kentucky Home," for the opening session of the Kentucky State Senate for several years. [6] 2015 annual training, Fort McCoy WI. The 100th Army Band executed 21 performance missions in a nine-day period. Bands of America Grand National Championships, November ...
The song was a favorite of Kentucky native President ... Ohio-born minstrel show composer Daniel Decatur ... Members of the 75th United States Army Band protested ...
Traditional state song: "Our Great Virginia" Jim Papoulis (arranger), based on "Oh Shenandoah" Mike Greenly: 2015 [14] Popular state song: "Sweet Virginia Breeze" Steve Bassett and Robbin Thompson: 2015 [14] Emeritus state song: "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" (retired as official song in 1998) James A. Bland [76] 1940 [1] [13] Washington
The song's reach throughout the United States and popularity have been attributed to soldiers of the war, who passed the tune from location to location during the war's tenure. The song remained popular through the nineteenth century. The typical reduction of the song's title from "My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!"
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President of the Confederate States: Born in Christian County: Wendell Hampton Ford (1924–2015) 53rd Governor of Kentucky, 1971–1974; 45th Lieutenant Governor 1967–1971; U.S. Senator 1974–1999, member of Democratic Party, veteran of Army and Kentucky National Guard, serving 1944–1946 and 1949–1962 Born and reared in Owensboro
Richard Frymire, Kentucky State Representative (1962–1964), State Senator (1966–1968), Adjutant General (1971–1977) Craig Greenberg (born 1973), businessman, lawyer, and politician; Mayor of Louisville; William Birch Haldeman, state adjutant general for the Kentucky Army National Guard and part owner of The Courier-Journal and The ...
Brooks was born in Sadieville, Kentucky on October 8, 1915 to a family of African-American sharecroppers. [1] [2] [a] He worked as a sales clerk in adulthood, moving to Hamilton, Ohio. [1] [3] In the early 1940s, Brooks joined the army from Hamilton as a private.