WASHINGTON, Dec.
3, 2008 -- Country singer/songwriter Craig Morgan can relate to
the veterans he meets when he performs, because he's been there.
“I was in Panama in 1989 for Operation
Just Cause, [and] I was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division
during Operation Desert Storm,” the former soldier said. “I
experienced a lot of the same stuff that they're going through.”
Despite that fact, though, Morgan said he'd always discounted
the impact music can have when a servicemember is far from home
until he performed after a Jack Daniels-sponsored care package
stuffing event at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., and met some
wounded servicemembers.
“They were talking about how my music affected
them, and what it meant to them when they were
going through what they were going through,”