Lee Greenwood
[9] It later became popular again during the Gulf War in 1991 and after the September 11 attacks (becoming his highest charting pop hit, reaching number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100), and again during the 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential elections as President Donald Trump's rally introduction track.[2] The band, which changed its name later to Lee Greenwood Affair, played mostly pop music and appeared mostly in casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada.After the band broke up in the 1970s, Greenwood moved back to Las Vegas, where he worked as a blackjack dealer during the day and as a singer at night.The song gained renewed popularity following the launch of Operation: Desert Storm in 1991,[14] and again, 10 years later, following the September 11 attacks.Greenwood made a surprise appearance at the 2024 RNC Convention on July 15, 2024, and performed "God Bless the U.S.A" while then former-President Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican Presidential Nominee, entered the arena which served as Trump's first appearance at a public event since surviving an assassination attempt two days prior.In September 2008, President George W. Bush nominated Greenwood to succeed Makoto Fujimura for a six-year term to the National Council on the Arts[17] expiring in 2014.In May 2021, to commemorate the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, Greenwood published the God Bless the U.S.A. Bible.This edition of the Bible has the U.S. flag on its leather cover and includes the texts of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the chorus of "God Bless the USA" in Greenwood's handwriting.[24] These augmentations have sparked controversy among certain Christians, who argue that it violates Scriptural prohibitions, such as those contained in Deuteronomy 4:2 and Revelation 22:18, against "add[ing] anything" to "the commands of the Lord your God.
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