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So Worley put his foot down. The powers that be came after him, relented on their creative demands and — lo and behold — several of those songs from the demo ended up becoming his first hits. A USO trip would provide a blockbuster. Worley visited Kuwait and Afghanistan during the Christmas season of , and he was inspired by the dedication and sacrifice of soldiers who put their lives on the line for their beliefs.

Additionally, he established the Tennessee River Run, an annual multi-day event in Savannah, Tennessee, that brings in money for the Darryl Worley Cancer Treatment Center, a facility that offers assistance in a region that was previously unserved. The impact of the cancer center was underscored for Worley when his dad coaxed him to attend a cancer survivors event without telling Darryl what he was walking into. Those people have walked into the center and walked out with a clean bill of health.

Worley has clearly made a difference in his neighborhood, using his celebrity to improve the lives of the people around him. Worley said he and Varble wrote the song one afternoon in January of He said a couple days later, he was playing as part of a veteran tribute concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

He decided that afternoon to teach the song to his band with the possibility of playing it during the show. They performed the song, and the response from the crowd was immediate, passionate and loud enough for Fisher to ask Worley to come back the following night and play on the weekly televised portion of the Grand Ole Opry.

The larger Opry House had more people in attendance and millions of people were watching, and that garnered a stark increase in the response to the song. Radio stations were downloading the recording to play on their broadcasts.

Fans were calling and logging on to the website of DreamWorks that their computer system crashed for a few hours. They wanted more patriotic music. Record labels were listening, too.

The lyrics leaned heavily into Christian teachings of faith, hope, and love. How do we get a copy? So we took the live performance from the CMAs and fed it to the radio stations. Galante says the anger was understandable. Each of them emphasizes the point and we felt all those emotions. Bush for rushing into the Iraq War. I want to be careful of playing war theme songs, because especially with current events, people are confused and raw. It was a different time 20 years ago.