Classic Country Music fans--Concerning Veterans Day?

Question

I want to take this time to give my thanks to all veterans and current military personnel who have given so much to protect us and our freedoms. It is not an easy job but one that must be done. I was a Navy Corpsman serving with the U. S Marines when I was in the service. The marines are a tough bunch of folks and I am proud to have served with them. All branches of our military are to be commended for the job that they do.I met alot of nice people while in the service and lost a lot of great friends as well. What is one country song that makes your heart swell with pride when you hear it because it is patriotic and salutes our great men and women of the military ?

Some of my favorites are:

There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere by Elton Britt

Ragged Old Flag by Johnny Cash

Hello Vietnam by Johnny Wright

God Bless The USA by Lee Greenwood

Soldiers Last Letter by Ernest Tubb

Answer 1

Hey Tommy if anyone should be doing the thanks here it's us thanking you for serving our country. (My hats off to you) I also would like to say thank you to everyone else on here that has served. As for a patriotic song that makes my heart swell...I,m going with "The star spangled banner" The words in that song just make me glad to be an American.

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

The part where it says "the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there." always brings a tear to my eye.

Thanks again...To all who gave their time and their life for our freedom. As Billy Ray Cyrus says "All gave some, Some gave all"

Answer 2

"God gave me the right to be a free American
For that precious right I'd gladly die"
Elton Britt, "There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere"

Other favorites:

"Mother I Thank You for the Bible You Gave" by the Louvin Brothers (from "The Weapon of Prayer" album, which is entirely songs about soldiers) -- a soldier carries the Bible his mother gave him in his shirt pocket, and it stops "the bullet aimed at my heart."

"I Wonder If They Every Think of Me" - Merle Haggard. After all his prison songs, when this one started, "There's not much a man can do inside a prison," you think, "Oh, another prison song," then you discover it's a PRISONER OF WAR song and the effect is just chilling.

BTW, I was in the Navy, too. I tell people I had the hardest job in the Navy: I was a yeoman, I had to babysit the officers! LOL

Answer 3

I would have to say Toby Keith America Soldier and Toby Keith Courtesy of the Red,White and Blue...These songs give me great pride in what my husband does and the men and women before him....and although I am in the silent ranks other wise known as the military wives I have to admit I do have one of the toughest military jobs...lol

Answer 4

"Still In Saigon" by Charlie Daniels Band
"The Last Fallen Hero" by Charlie Daniels Band
"Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly" by Aaron Tippin
"You've Got To Stand For Something" by Aaron Tippin (not patriotic per se, but I love what it says"
"American Soldier" by Toby Keith
"Letters From Home" by John Michael Montgomery

Answer 5

Ballad of Ira Hayes-Johnny Cash
Still in Saigon-Charlie Daniels

Two of my Greatgrand Fathers fought for the Confederacy, Grandfather in WW1,
Father in Occupied Japan & Korea,
Brother in Thailand, Viet Nam, & anywhere else a plane was down. Thank you Vets!

Answer 6

We are blessed to live in a country, where we have so many freedoms, (even if, sometimes they are taken for granted)!

But that is because some brave men gave thier lives for that priveledge, and they need to be remermbered (at least for a day)!

My favorite patriotic songs are:
Ragged old Flag
The Fighting side of me

Answer 7

I have a lot of favorites,Elton Britt's #1 on my list,thr ough they are all good,As a veteran myself,I salute all the US military,Those who gave all,and those who are still doing the job,not because they have to,but because they believe in what is right,and are willing to put themselves in harm's way,that we may have the freedom that we have,no it is not perfect,but it is and has always been the best in the world.
God Bless them all. 307th combat engineers,82nd Airborne

Answer 8

I am a Viet Nam era Air Force Surgical Medic vet and there are a few songs such as the ones you mentioned as well as "Deck of Cards" and SSGT Barry Sadler "Ballad of the Green Berets" and "Salute to the Nurses".
So to all fellow VETS I salute you and thanks.

Answer 9

Fightin Side Of Me -Merle hagard
Ballad Of Ira Hayes-Kristofferson
USA Today- Hank Williams Jr (salutes the country more than the troops, but gotta love it)

Answer 10

well, star spangled heaven by conway twitty
also, its not classic country but its country: if your reading this by tim mcgraw; a bunch by toby keith. then songs are endless!! endless i tell ya!