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"We had absolute unanimity is this song being the touchstone," Vietnam War veteran and University of Wisconsin Communications Systems Director Doug Bradley said in a 2006 interview. "This was the ...
Soldier Songs & Voices provides songwriting lessons and free instruments to veterans as a form of post-conflict care. Through music education small groups of veterans around the country are ...
Songwriters with a group of soldiers (Photo: Ed Rode) Song Writing With: Soldiers (SW:S) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that pairs veterans and active-duty service members with professional songwriters in retreat settings to craft songs about combat and the return home.
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CreatiVets seeks "to teach [veterans] songwriting as a skill to help them heal through the creation of music." [12] In July 2020, CreatiVets partnered with Big Machine Records and Music Has Value to release music created through the CreatiVets songwriting program. [12] The album Veteran Songs was released on July 3, 2020. [13]
"Goodnight Saigon" is a song written by Billy Joel, originally appearing on his 1982 album The Nylon Curtain, about the Vietnam War. It depicts the situation and attitude of United States Marines beginning with their military training on Parris Island and then into different aspects of Vietnam combat.
In Windber, second-grade students at the elementary school had breakfast Thursday with local veterans and sang some patriotic songs in their honor. The veterans from Windber VFW Post No. 4795 then ...
"This Is My Country" is an American patriotic song composed in 1940. The lyrics are by Don Raye and the music is by Al Jacobs. [1] Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians were the first to record the song, in 1942. The song has played at the end of Walt Disney World and Disneyland fireworks shows. [1]