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- Dixie Chicks “Travelin’ Soldier”
- Pearl Jam “I Am A Patriot”
- Billy Ray Cyrus “Some Gave All”
- Tori Amos “Dark Side of the Sun”
- Mark O’Connor “Bunker Hill”
- Mark O’Connor “Song of the Liberty Bell”
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- United States Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps “Yankee Doodle”
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