{"id":26518,"date":"2013-11-14T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=26518"},"modified":"2013-11-14T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T13:00:14","slug":"hank-williams-jr-set-to-be-honored-with-patriot-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/14\/hank-williams-jr-set-to-be-honored-with-patriot-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Hank Williams Jr. Set To Be Honored With Patriot Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hankwilliamsjr04\"HANK WILLIAMS JR. SET TO BE HONORED<\/strong>
\n WITH ‘PATRIOT AWARD’ FROM OPERATION TROOP AID<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Nashville, Tenn. (November 12,\u00a02013) \u2013 Operation Troop Aid (OTA), a nonprofit organization which supports deployed U.S. troops, set to honor Grammy, CMA, ACM, and Emmy award-winning entertainer Hank Williams Jr.<\/strong> with the 2013 Operation Troop Aid \u201cPatriot Award.\u201d\u00a0 The presentation will take place on December 31st, when Williams headlines the New Year\u2019 Eve \u2018Bash on Broadway\u2019 in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Presented annually by OTA to celebrities that champion the men and women serving in the American Armed Forces, the southern rock and country legend was awarded the Eagle Trophy for his countless endeavors to support troops overseas and at local hospitals and for supporting numerous military charities. Well known for his role as an American Patriot, Williams, has performed at various military bases and continues to meet military personnel at every concert appearance.
\n“I am extremely honored to award Hank Williams Jr the 2013 Patriot Award. \u00a0His art, legacy of family and Spirit of Patriotism is exactly why this award exists. \u00a0He never forgot his roots and why we have the Freedom we do in America,”\u00a0says OTA founder and executive director Mark Woods.
\nWilliams will join past Patriot Award recipients Toby Keith, Darryl Worley, Aaron Tippin, Gary Sinise, Charlie Daniels, Mark Wills, and KISS.
\nAbout Hank Williams Jr.<\/span><\/strong>
\nThough he began his career in the shadow of his legendary father, Hank Williams Jr. emerged as a formidable Country singer-songwriter in his own right with 1960s hits such as \u201cIt\u2019s All Over But The Crying\u201d and \u201cCajun Baby.\u201d But things changed with the 1979 release of \u201cFamily Tradition,\u201d where he broke the Nashville mainstream by adopting a rebel image and writing\/recording in a style incorporating his Blues and Southern Rock influences. The results were staggering as\u00a0 42 Top-10 hits followed, two CMA Entertainer of the Year honors, three ACM Entertainer of the Year honors, multiple Grammy nominations and a Grammy award for \u201cThere\u2019s a Tear in My Beer\u201d, a duet with his father using electronic merging technology.
\nAs groundbreaking as Hank Williams Jr. became, it wasn\u2019t just his performance that people took note about, but rather his songwriting that became so notable.\u00a0The driven musician penned hits songs year after year scoring 20 BMI Awards.\u00a0One of the arguably most-heard Country song of modern times, the four-time Emmy award-winning \u201cAre You Ready For Some Football?,\u201d which was heard nationally as the theme song of ABC and ESPN\u2019s Monday Night Football<\/em> telecasts, was aired for 21 years.
\nAs the accolades kept coming, Williams sold over 55 million albums, achieving gold, platinum, and multi-platinum status along with 13 of those albums hitting the no. 1 spot on the Billboard chart. In 2008, Williams was honored with the BMI Icon award at the 56th annual BMI Country Awards, joining an elite group of past honorees including Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Dolly Parton.
\nAbout Operation Troop Aid:<\/span><\/strong>
\n\"operationFounded in 2005 by 21-year military veteran, Mark Woods, Operation Troop Aid provides care packages for deployed U.S. Service Members with revenue generated through professional concert promotions and public financial generosity. OTA is a nonprofit corporation striving to make a positive difference and inspire the Armed Forces by letting them know Americans stand with them. OTA is a certified Combined Federal Campaign Charity – CFC #26493.
\nAs an entertainment based charity, each year OTA selects and presents The OPERATION TROOP AID Patriot Award to an entertainer \/ artist that best exemplifies the spirit of Patriotic service to our Troops and Americanism in their art. \u00a0It does not necessarily reflect events in that year, as it may be a historical grouping of their achievements to promote our Troops and American Patriotism. \u00a0It is an award that embodies a sense of service, supporting our American Troops and an overall outlook of honoring our Constitution and promoting the Freedom that our Troops provide.
\nFor more information on OTA, visit www.OperationTroopAid.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HANK WILLIAMS JR. SET TO BE HONORED WITH ‘PATRIOT AWARD’ FROM OPERATION TROOP AID Nashville, Tenn. (November 12,\u00a02013) \u2013 Operation Troop Aid (OTA), a nonprofit organization which supports deployed U.S. troops, set to honor Grammy, CMA, ACM, and Emmy award-winning entertainer Hank Williams Jr. with the 2013 Operation Troop Aid \u201cPatriot Award.\u201d\u00a0 The presentation will take place on December 31st, when Williams headlines the New Year\u2019 Eve \u2018Bash on Broadway\u2019 in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Presented annually by OTA to celebrities that champion the men and women serving in the American<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}