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    • Apr 21, 1977
    Singer/songwriter Jesse Winchester performs in Burlington, Vermont. It marks his first concert in the U.S. since 1967, when he moved to Canada to avoid the draft. Winchester eventually nabs a country hit as a songwriter when Michael Martin Murphey records "I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl"
    Mar 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"
    Nov 12, 1986
    Roy Rogers and Dale Evans join Bob Hope at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles for a Vietnam Veterans Salute to the USO
    Dec 19, 1986
    The Vietnam War picture "Platoon" debuts in theaters. Starring Charlie Sheen and Tom Berenger, its soundtrack album features Merle Haggard's "Okie From Muskogee," The Miracles' "Tracks Of My Tears" and Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay"
    Jun 26, 1987
    Johnny Wright's "Hello Vietnam" opens the Vietnam movie "Full Metal Jacket" as it debuts in theaters
    May 24, 1992
    Billy Ray Cyrus performs "Some Gave All" at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
    May 1, 1994
    John Denver becomes the first American artist to perform in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War
    Aug 6, 2004
    The Vietnam Veterans of America present the President's Award to George Jones during a ceremony at the Sheraton Downtown Nashville Hotel
    Nov 7, 2007
    Jimmy Fortune joins bluegrass duo Dailey & Vincent in the reading of names at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. They perform the Statler Brothers hit "More Than A Name On A Wall"
    Mar 31, 2012
    The Oak Ridge Boys, The Charlie Daniels Band and Rockie Lynne play during a USO homecoming celebration for Vietnam War veterans at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, New Hampshire



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