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Gravesite of Charlie Daniels vandalized in Middle Tennessee
WATE ^ | 6/30.2022 | Brittney Baird

Posted on 07/02/2022 12:42:28 PM PDT by GailA

The Charlie Daniels Band said someone glued a spouse’s military ID to the marble a few months ago and damaged the grave. Then, someone dug up a newly planted dogwood tree and took it.

The CDB reported Mt. Juliet Police will be increasing patrols near his grave and video surveillance will soon be installed at the gravesite.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: 19361028; 20200706; charleydaniels; charliedaniels; desecration; mountjuliet; music; musicalinterlude; tennessee; uneasyrider
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To: Doctor Freeze

Yup.😏


21 posted on 07/02/2022 1:25:33 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: GailA
Great Tennessean, totally patriotic pro-American icon. He wrote many op-ed columns for CSN News that were always worth the time.

I just wish he hadn't kicked me while saying I had a commie flag tacked up in my garage. I don't even have a garage...you can call home and ask my wife!

Greenteeth

(Tribute of course)

22 posted on 07/02/2022 1:32:46 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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To: MikelTackNailer

That was you? Commie.

A few years ago I read about Uneasy Rider in his autobiography.

I was hoping to read that it was a real story. In the book he called it a novelty song.


23 posted on 07/02/2022 1:44:11 PM PDT by cyclotic (I won't give up my FREEDOM for your FEAR. Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee.)
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To: GailA

I e seen freshly planted plants, shrubs and bushes disappear from gravesites in a matter of minutes. I suspect the groundsmen have side business andknow quality stuff when they see it. The idea that some random shrub thief happened by just at that moment and took advantage of a five minute window seems unlikely.


24 posted on 07/02/2022 2:12:02 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: MikelTackNailer

How’s that knee doing?


25 posted on 07/02/2022 2:13:42 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: GailA

What issue do people have with Mr. Daniels?

#TheDevilWentDownToTennessee


26 posted on 07/02/2022 2:14:51 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Bus No. 2525)
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To: GailA


Click to listen:

A Simple Man

I ain't nothin' but a simple man
They call me a redneck; I reckon that I am
But there's things going on that
Make me mad down to the core

I have to work like a dog to make ends meet
There's crooked politicians and crime in the street
And I'm madder'n hell and I ain't gonna take it no more

We tell our kids to just say no
Then some pantywaist judge lets a drug dealer go
Slaps him on the wrist and then he turns him back out on the town

Now if I had my way with people sellin' dope
I'd take a big tall tree and a short piece of rope
I'd hang 'em up high and let 'em swing 'til the sun goes down

Well, you know what's wrong with the world today
People done gone and put their Bibles away
They're living by the law of the jungle, not the law of the land
The good book says it, so I know it's the truth
An eye for and eye and a tooth for a tooth
You better watch where you go and remember where you been
That's the way I see it
I'm a Simple Man

Now I'm the kinda man that'd not harm a mouse
But if I catch somebody breakin’ in my house
I've got a twelve-gauge shotgun waiting on the other side

So don't go pushing me against my will
I don't want to have to fight you, but I dern sure will
So if you don't want trouble then you'd better just pass me on by

As far as I'm concerned there ain't no excuse
For the raping and the killing and the child abuse
And I've got a way to put an end to all that mess

Just take them rascals out in the swamp
Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump
Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest

You know what's wrong with the world today
People done gone and put their Bibles away
They're living by the law of the jungle, not the law of the land
The Good Book says it, so I know it's the truth
An eye for and eye and a tooth for a tooth
You better watch where you go and remember where you been
That's the way I see it
I'm a Simple Man



27 posted on 07/02/2022 2:37:44 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Government is the problem.” --Milton Friedman)
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To: MikelTackNailer

Loved that song!


28 posted on 07/02/2022 3:01:44 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: GailA

In 2004 two Tennessee policemen were killed by a fleeing felon in a stolen car. Both officers were married and had 10 children between them. Daniels put on a benefit concert for their survivors and got everybody to donate everything needed to put on the show FREE. Everybody from the venue to the ticket agency did their part FREE. 100% of the gate went to the two families.

In my book that’s not the sort of man who deserves to have his final resting place vandalized.


29 posted on 07/02/2022 3:38:42 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: GailA

OK, these people are really starting to piss me off now.


30 posted on 07/02/2022 3:43:47 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: GailA

Sorry Charlie.


31 posted on 07/02/2022 4:17:31 PM PDT by sauropod (It's too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy cutting hair.)
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To: GailA

Saw him perform at the Opry about a year before died. He was still out-fiddlin’ the devil at that performance.


32 posted on 07/02/2022 4:25:59 PM PDT by voicereason (The RNC is like the "one-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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To: eyedigress
How's that knee doing?

It could have been worse:

Oh

Seriously though, let's not forget Charlie's incredible legacy of nineteen Volunteer Jams and two since his passing. Here's the amazing lineup from last year's:

"Volunteer Jam XXI: A Musical Salute to Charlie Daniels" August 18, 2021

Organised by David Corlew (Daniels' business manager), the first event after his July 6, 2020 death is a benefit for Daniels' charity The Journey Home Project. The event featured the surviving members of the CDB in addition to Alabama, The Marshall Tucker Band, Ricky Skaggs, The Gatlin Brothers, Chris Young, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt, Lorrie Morgan, Exile, Michael W. Smith, Big & Rich, Anthony Castagna, CeCe Winans, Gretchen Wilson, 38 Special, The Allman Betts Band, Cedric Burnside, Jenny Tolman, the Atlanta Rhythm Section, Travis Denning, Johnny Lee, Rhett Akins, Scooter Brown Band, The SteelDrivers, Pure Prairie League and comedian Dusty Slay.

More here on his The Journey Home Project and it's partner missions American Military Family, Special Forces Association Chapter 38, A Soldier’s Child Foundation, Shadow Warriors Project, The Legion Fund and Reboot Recovery. Thank you Mr. Daniels.

33 posted on 07/02/2022 11:01:35 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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To: GailA

Not hardly the desecration Jane Fonda’s grave will suffer.

There will be a line that can be seen from space.


34 posted on 07/03/2022 6:14:41 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

It won’t just be men. I hate her. Even Era Vets hated her. Many are in their 80’s now. Can we add the Song Bird to the list?


35 posted on 07/03/2022 9:09:05 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

36 posted on 07/03/2022 9:18:06 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Weird


37 posted on 07/03/2022 11:23:15 AM PDT by wardaddy (Tis a dark road western civilization is careening down self righteously drunk obsessive over racism )
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To: Tax-chick
It sounds less like “vandalized” with intent to do damage and more like a cult beginning.

Yep.

It could be worse. It could be people leaving potatoes.

38 posted on 07/03/2022 11:48:23 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

True. Potatoes quickly start to stink.


39 posted on 07/03/2022 11:53:57 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: Tax-chick
Yep.

They have to be cleaned up nightly.

But it is nice to see someone honored because they kept their people fed rather then for some of the other things monarchs do.

40 posted on 07/03/2022 12:04:34 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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