{"id":546959,"date":"2021-05-31T11:46:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T15:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=546959"},"modified":"2021-05-31T12:20:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T16:20:20","slug":"country-singer-greenwood-to-newsmax-plenty-of-people-just-want-to-be-an-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/country-singer-greenwood-to-newsmax-plenty-of-people-just-want-to-be-an-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Singer Greenwood to Newsmax: Plenty of People Just Want to be an American"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcountry-singer-greenwood-to-newsmax-plenty-of-people-just-want-to-be-an-american%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=546959&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-635.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Country music singer Lee Greenwood, whose patriotic hit&nbsp;&#8220;God Bless the USA&#8221; gained great prominence during the Gulf War and after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, says there\u2019s a lot to fix in the U.S. with current social and economic divisions but prays &#8220;whichever president comes in front of the public will do their very best to help the unification and stop the division.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rest of the world looks at us totally different than we do, and sometimes they even laugh at us when we have trouble, or we have something that tears us apart,&#8221; he said Monday during an appearance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmaxtv.com\/Shows\/Wake-Up-America\">Newsmax&#8217;s &#8220;Wake Up America.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, rioting, you would think we are a third-world country all of a sudden and from my perspective, everywhere I go, I see people who want to be just an American. They just want to have a great life and live every single day helping their neighbors and helping veterans. I mean, where is the strife?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood first cut &#8220;God Bless the USA&#8221; for his 1984 album, &#8220;You\u2019ve Got a Good Love Comin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the age of 11, 12, 13, I started working at McClellan Air Force base, which is right near our home there and I realized the sacrifice of the military early on in my life,&#8221; he told Newsmax.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took me a while to get over to Nashville. It was an interesting trip for me because your kind of in a bubble, you kind of didn\u2019t see the outside world, and I wanted always to write something that would unify our country. When I got to Nashville, I signed onto MCA Records, the world changed for me. It was a time of peace as well, cause I\u2019m Vietnam era. Things just kind of moved along where they should. I had several hit records in a row, I was on a stable with a lot of famous artists. And just one night I got out of my truck, and I said, \u2018I think I\u2019ll write that song I\u2019ve been wanting to write all my life.\u2019 It was 1983.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It reflects for me the freedom that I had to do what I wanted to do to make my life fun and it is. I thank every single soldier, sailor, Marine, Coast Guard, Space X people that are doing their very best to make this country free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;See&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmaxtv.com\/\"><span>Newsmax TV<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;now carried in more than 100 million U.S. homes, on&nbsp;<strong>DirecTV<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 349,&nbsp;<strong>Dish Network&nbsp;<\/strong>Ch. 216,&nbsp;<strong>Xfinity<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 1115,&nbsp;<strong>Spectrum, U-verse<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 1220,&nbsp;<strong>FiOS<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 615,&nbsp;<strong>Frontier<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 115,&nbsp;<strong>Optimum<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 102,&nbsp;<strong>Cox cable, Suddenlink<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 102,&nbsp;<strong>Mediacom<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 277,&nbsp;<strong>AT&amp;T TV<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch 349,&nbsp; <strong>FUBO<\/strong> and major OTT platforms like&nbsp;<strong>Roku<\/strong>, YouTube, Xumo, Pluto and most smart TV\u2019s including&nbsp;<strong>Samsung+<\/strong>, Sony, LG, Vizio and more \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Find All Systems that Carry Newsmax \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmaxtv.com\/findus\"><span>Click Here<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country music singer Lee Greenwood, whose patriotic hit\u00a0&#8220;God Bless the USA&#8221; gained great prominence during the Gulf War and after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, says there\u2019s a lot to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313594,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-635.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Country Singer Greenwood to Newsmax: Plenty of People Just Want to be an American","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-635.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Country Singer Greenwood to Newsmax: Plenty of People Just Want to be an American","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}