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LEE GREENWOOD: Trump can help finish the fight Frank Sinatra started

America has always made a plain promise that hard work deserves to be rewarded

By Lee Greenwood Fox News

Published July 3, 2026 10:00am EDT

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This year, in communities all across America, bands will strike up "God Bless the U.S.A." and crowds will rise to their feet. It will happen at firework shows and small-town parades, at ballgames and backyard cookouts, as our country marks 250 years.

I wrote that song more than 40 years ago on a tour bus, between shows, running 300 dates a year. Since then, I've performed it in every state of our union and all across the globe for our troops who are serving a long way from home. I have never once gotten tired of it.

But here is something most people do not know. Every time an AM/FM radio station plays that recording, the station makes money, but the artists and musicians who recorded it make nothing. Not me or the other musicians who performed it with me. A radio company can broadcast "God Bless the U.S.A." a thousand times, sell advertising against every play, and never pay the people who made it. That is not because of some deal we signed away. It's because of a loophole in the law that Congress has left open for about a hundred years.

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