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    • Jan 14, 1972
    Guy Clark marries Susanna Talley at the Sumner County Courthouse in Gallatin, Tennessee. The wedding party includes fellow songwriters Mickey Newbury and the best man, Townes Van Zandt
    May 25, 1972
    Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty perform for troops at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina, along with Anthony Armstrong Jones and soul singer Jerry Butler
    May 24, 1973
    Roy Acuff performs at the White House--along with John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Sammy Davis Jr.--for POWs who returned from Vietnam. Acuff sings "Wabash Cannonball." Irving Berlin conducts the orchestra during "God Bless America"
    Jan 21, 1977
    President Jimmy Carter formally pardons most of the draft dodgers who refused to serve during the Vietnam War. It clears the way for Jesse Winchester, who will write Michael Martin Murphey's "I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl," to perform in the U.S. again
    Nov 11, 1979
    Johnny Cash serves as grand marshal of the Nashville Veterans Day Parade, joined in the procession by June Carter and by the Man In Black's father, World War I veteran Ray Cash
    May 18, 1980
    Barbara Mandrell breaks the sound barrier, flying with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds
    Nov 11, 1982
    Jan Howard is co-grand marshal of the Veterans Day Parade in Nashville
    Nov 13, 1982
    The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. The stone monument--which lists Jan Howard's son, Jimmy, among the war dead--inspires The Statler Brothers' 1989 hit "More Than A Name On A Wall"
    Feb 4, 1984
    Lawrence Joel, the first African-American medic to earn a medal of honor, dies in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Though wounded himself, he had helped 13 soldiers off the battlefield in a Vietnam event that inspired Big & Rich's "8th Of November"
    Oct 23, 1984
    Mayor Zander Guy makes Waylon Jennings an honorary deputy and declares Waylon Jennings Day in Jacksonville, North Carolina, as Jennings plays a benefit for a memorial to honor soldiers who were killed in a 1983 Beirut terrorist attack



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