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BILL BLOG Monday, February 16, 2026   It’s Monday morning, and I’m back home in Nashville. We’ll get up to 60 for high toda.   THE WEEKEND Good be home, after a run to Greensburg, Indiana, last week with Freedom Sings USA.       One of the things Greensburg, Indiana, is famous for is this tree that’s grown out of the courthouse roof. It’s been growing for 100 years or more. It’s hard to miss if you drive through town. Just thought you should know in case you ever wind up in Greensburg.     NEW RETREAT I got word that Freedom Sings USA will travel to Durham, North Carolina, on June 4 and 5. Our first time in North Carolina at the VA Medical Center working with veterans. Looking forward to that.        BOOK SIGNING My wife Kathy will have her first official book signing in Nashville on Saturday, February 28, at the Enclave Clubhouse in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, from 3-5 pm that day. If you’re in Music City t...

BILL BLOG Friday, February 13, 2026   Friday morning, ready to return home to Nashville from Indiana. Oh, and it’s Friday the 13 th .   50 degrees high here in Greensburg, Indiana.   YESTERDAY After an early breakfast in Greensburg, Indiana, with Freedom Sings USA, I met the veteran whom I had been assigned to write with. And that was Tom Sullivan and his lovely wife, Kathy . Colonel Tom served as a pilot in the Air Force for 27 years before retiring. He took an ROTC course while he was in college, just because they could teach you to fly. And then he was shipped to Vietnam for 5 years, flying missions, and somehow survived.   He flew Bob Hope and other celebrities to their shows in Vietnam. He planned the mission that extracted Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos safely. He was involved with the Pueblo ship incident.   And he was the commander at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque at the end of his career before he and his wife, Kathy r...

BILL BLOG Thursday, February 12, 2026   And a good Thursday morning to you from Greensburg, Indiana. 39 degrees for the high temperature here today.   YESTERDAY Myself and 4 other songwriters from Nashville and I made the 5-hour trip up to Greensburg, Indiana, for a Freedom Sings USA songwriter retreat with veterans from this area.   They had a lot more snow here than we had in Nashville. They got the snow, we got the ice. Our first stop was at the local fairgrounds to take a look at where we will be playing the songs we write with veterans today.  I love a stage with a big American flag!   Then we drove into downtown Greensburg for dinner at a place called “ The Beach ”.        Great food, and they set up a stage for us to play 2 songs apiece to some of the veterans and locals who had gathered.   Wil Nance , Bill DiLuigi, Bobby Tomberlin , Steve Dean, and I did 2 songs apiece, and a couple of songs ...