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“THE GREATEST PATRIOT NASHVILLE TRIED TO SILENCE Peter Jennings said the lyrics were too angry for ABC’s 4th of July special, 2002. “”Tone it down, or you’re off the show.”” Toby Keith walked. He’d written “”Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue”” in 20 minutes — on the back of a fantasy football sheet — three months after burying his father, an Army veteran who lost his right eye at war. He wasn’t going to soften a single word for a network. The feud exploded. Natalie Maines called it “”ignorant.”” Critics called it jingoistic. ABC never invited him back. Then 19 years later, a sitting president placed the National Medal of Arts around his neck. The man they tried to silence became the voice the country remembered. Some songs aren’t written to please Nashville. They’re written to honor a father who can’t hear them anymore. Toby refused to record it for months — until a four-star general made one phone call that changed his mind. What did your father teach you about standing your ground?”