patriotic feelings and striking out at the rest of the world. ♪ falling under attack he might have sucker punched coming from somewhere in the back ♪ ♪ as soon as we could see it clearly through our big black eye ♪ ♪ we lit up your world like the fourth of july ♪ >> it really spoke to this visceral thing that was going on in america, like we've got to go find these people. >> there's a long history in country from the depression forward on up to the vietnam war, a lot of gung-ho, go get em songs so it was all there bubbling until 9/11 came and all of a sudden country music was the town hall of music. ♪ brought to you courtesy of the red white and blue ♪ >> it was such a powerful song