Sep 11, 2001

A terrorist attack levels both towers at the World Trade Center in New York. In Manhattan during the chaos, though they are unhurt: Garth Brooks, Billy Gilman, Rosanne Cash and Mary Chapin Carpenter

Sep 12, 2001

Martina McBride sings the national anthem at a Centennial Park vigil in Nashville for victims of the previous day's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Other country performers include Kenny Chesney, Shannon Brown and Phil Vassar

Sep 15, 2001

Wynonna sings "No One Else On Earth" and "How Great Thou Art" in her Grand Ole Opry debut. Fans at the Grand Ole Opry House are given American flags in the wake of a terrorist attack four days earlier on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

Sep 15, 2001

Aaron Tippin initiates two days of recording on the single "Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly"

Sep 17, 2001

Lyric Street releases Aaron Tippin's "Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly" to radio, just two days after he began recording it

Sep 21, 2001

TV stations air "America: A Tribute To Heroes" en masse 10 days after a terrorist attack. Willie Nelson leads the cast in the finale, "America, The Beautiful," with appearances by The Dixie Chicks, Reba McEntire, Faith Hill, Neil Young, Billy Joel, Tom Petty and Paul Simon, who contributes "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

Sep 24, 2001

Lee Greenwood visits Ground Zero in New York City with Brooke Shields and Olivia Newton-John. Greenwood sings "God Bless The U.S.A." for rescue workers at the rubble from 9/11

Oct 2, 2001

Trace Adkins visits rescue and recovery workers at the site of the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York. He later tells country.com, "It was just too much"

Oct 5, 2001

Wynonna Judd performs a pair of shows on the military base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to support the troops in the wake of an imminent war with Afghanistan

Oct 8, 2001

Lyric Street releases the Aaron Tippin single "Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly" to retail