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ZAC Brown Is aware of the many sacrifices made by service members and their families. That is why he meets veterans before his shows and honors them on stage.
“They are such incredible people,” Brown told Fox News Digital. “Their stories are so inspiring, and bringing it on stage and only sharing a moment of gratitude with them for that whole crowd, and everyone in the crowd that encourages them and simply reminds them that all their sacrifices are appreciated. I have many friends who are in the army.
On Memorial Day, Brown is honored during the American Music Awards by the Easy Day Foundation with the inaugural Veterans Voice Award for his “relentless support for the veteran community”.
“This price means a lot for me because of the awareness that it will make for our veteran programs,” Brown explained to Fox News Digital. “The more people are aware of how to earn that these incredible people are, the more help we can bring them.
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“It is such incredible, dynamic people who make many sacrifices of their family, the quality of their family life when they return home, their mental well -being, all those things so that we can be free and be here.”
Zac Brown is aware of the many sacrifices of service members and their families. The Countryster founded a camp in Georgia that serves veterans and children more than ten years ago, Camp Southern Ground. (Tyler Lord)
Brown says that many people don’t even think of the sacrifices made by service members “just so that we can live in such a great country where we feel safe. It is an honor and privilege to be able to serve them back.”
The Countryster founded a camp in Georgia that serves veterans and children more than ten years ago.
“We do 34 weeks of experienced programs,” he told Fox News Digital. “We serve the Warrior Path program of Bernie Marcus in our camp. We were one of the first campuses to be chosen to serve their program. They help with the transition from and to the service and help people with PTSD and other challenges they find when they come home. And they help them find community and goal and how their new chapter is.”
The camp also has the Warrior Song program that makes them tell them to tell their story, that they may not feel comfortable to tell a civilian. But they can tell their story with a number of great talented songwriters, so that they can sing their story or play it to someone and help share that part of the shadow because many of them get that weight with them that weight. ”
ZAC Brown Band performs at the USO Gala 2016 October 20, 2016 in Dar Constitution Hall in Washington, DC (Paul Morigi/Getty images)
Camp Southern Ground also organizes a family camp, of which Brown says it helps service members “see their families as their unity when they come back.”
“It helps them to have aids. It also helps them to be with other veterans and their families, and they spend time learning how they can see their family as their unity and have the tools to integrate together, so that they can have a successful marriage and successful parenthood, so that they are good,” he explained.
“I am really proud of all the things we do there.”
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The dedication of ZAC Brown to veterans handed him out the inaugural Veterans Voice Award, which was presented by the Easy Day Foundation on Memorial Day on the American Music Awards. (Thanks to Dick Clark Productions)
The Veterans Voice Award is made to emphasize artists such as Brown, who use their platforms to help veterans.
The “Chicken Fried” singer says it is difficult to choose a personal story that a service member told him because he has heard so many great anecdotes.
“My friend Ollie told me a story about how he thinks about things and how he never wants his demons to be behind him. He wants them to be chained for him so that he can see them and knows when they try to stop and get out of their chains, and he knows he can be aware of it,” said Brown. “It is a daily choice to conquer those things.”
Other veterans also told him how much his music meant to them while they served.
“Our active service and our veterans offer our safety so that we can do it so that we can live the American dream.”
“I have been several times more to play for USO, play in Iraq and Afghanistan and Kuwait and go out to some of those Ford -Operational Bases that they have not seen anyone who has reminded them of home for a very long time,” he said.
“Some of them had just lost one of their members on a (improvised explosive device), and they painted his name on a tank when we arrived there.”
The band eventually filmed the video clip for his song “Free” on that base.
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“As soon as we took our guitars out and the speakers out, and we started playing music, it was as if a light came into their eyes and reminded them of what they are fighting and what they do about,” he explains. “The things we ask of them. We spent 10 days there, and they give years and years of sacrifice for our country so that we can be free here and enjoy our lives. Those stories and remember that they are with those incredible people, it moves me, and it is important to thank and grateful to the people who protect us.”
It is especially important that Brown will be honored on Memorial Day.
Brown says that many people don’t even think of the sacrifices made by service members “just so that we can live in such a great country where we feel safe. It is an honor and privilege to be able to serve them back.” (Denise Tracello/Getty images for IHeartMedia)
“It is important that Americans pause on Memorial Day because many people have fought and died and suffered for our freedom, and I am grateful that the American Music Awards and Easy Day Foundation recognize this during Monday’s event,” he said.
“People can complain about America, complain about anything, but they did not go and lived in other countries,” he added. “Most of them did not start living and see what it is like in some of the other places in the world. In America there are challenges with everything you are going to do and achieve, but you can do things here that you can’t do anywhere else.”
He says that people in the United States can “live that American dream, regardless of what background you are, regardless of what your history was, to create a great life for yourself”, adding that veterans offer security “so that we can live the American dream.
“People can complain about America, complain about anything, but they did not go and lived in other countries.”
“Making music for a living is one of the best things in my life,” he said. “It is such a privilege to be able to do what I like to do. And I couldn’t do that if we didn’t have the liberties we have here and that is because of our veterans and our service people.”
Brown says that his personal connections with the army ‘really deep’, adding ‘that it is an honor to sit down and hear their stories, “like the story of Joe Maynard about launching a knife company.
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“My Buddy Joe Handelbank, with whom I lived, to Joe Maynard, who is an incredible guy. He had to do many things that he sometimes still suffers from, but saw him a goal and a friend could be for him, lead him to make knives and find new goal in things, “he explained.
“He is doing all kinds of things now, but such an incredible guy.”
ZAC Brown founded Camp Southern Ground in 2011. (Natasha Snor/Wireimage)
HARDENBANK gave Brown a medal that he won for saving troops who were underfilled in an ambush because of some Brown’s music, especially the song “Natural Disaster”, meant for him.
“It’s a privilege to get to know these people,” said Brown. “I invite everyone who has a heart for veterans and heart for children to learn more Camp Southern Ground. If you have no other goal than yourself in your life you contribute to, you have to find something like that. And if you want to join forces with us, we would like to have you. “
“It is such a privilege to be able to do what I like to do, and I couldn’t do that if we didn’t have the freedoms we have here. And that is because of our veterans and our service people.”
“It’s so much more than a camp,” he said. “It is at university level of quality, the build and everything like that. We have an incredible staff. We learn how to be better every year. It is a privilege to be recognized, but it is a privilege to share the awareness of these things, so that we can all find out how we can help each other.
The collaboration of the American Music Awards with the Easy Day Foundation, an organization that offers support to veterans who transfer to military life, will also contain two versions and inspiring stories from active service members and veterans. (Jason Kempin/Getty images)
The collaboration of the American Music Awards with the Easy Day Foundation, an organization that offers support to veterans who transfer to military life, will also contain two versions and inspiring stories from active service members and veterans.
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Collected money for the Easy Day Foundation Will also benefit other veteran organizations throughout the country, including the Bob Woodruff Foundation, Boot Campaign, Congressional Medal of Honor Society, Fisher House, The Folded Flag Foundation, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of Americon and UNLV’s Milaryon.
Part of the ticket sales will go to the Easy Day Foundation and its partners.
Part of the seats on the AMAs will also be reserved for veterans.
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