The Military of World Wars Annual Red White & Blue Ball held at the Reagan Library was an incredible evening.  It was a privilege to perform at the ceremony for the POW’s & MIA’s, a very moving experience, as was the moment the audience of our military heroes joined in with me on the final chorus of “God Bless America”.

There were many of “America’s greatest generation” in attendance, including the WWII paratrooper Rosie Nolan, who survived D-Day and  the Battle of the Bulge and also served in the Pacific arena.  His three brothers served as well, one of whom served under Patton and received three purple stars. He even showed me the very toy clicker he used on D-Day. He explained to me that in the darkness, the soldiers would  go “click-click”.  He said, “If you hear a click-click in return, you know you’re OK. If you don’t hear it, you shoot him.”