# Salute The Troops Live from The Grand Ole Opry

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- Published: 2023-05-24T11:34:23-04:00
- Author: EAN

The Grand Ole Opry honored our service men and women with a special Tuesday Night
Opry Salute The Troops performance.

The red carpet was led by a drumline and special guests including Richard Casper,
a United States Marine Veteran, Purple Heart recipient, artist and CreatiVets co-
Founder/Executive Director, as well as retired Army General Keith Huber, who served
38 years as an Infantryman and Green Beret with tours in Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador,
Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Haiti, Honduras, Kosovo and Afghanistan. Huber is a senior advisor
for the veterans and leadership initiatives at MTSU and was a guest announcer representing
The Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center at MTSU.

Performers for the special evening included Opry members John Conlee, The Oak Ridge
Boys and Rhonda Vincent as well as Craig Campbell, Jason Crabb, [Locash](http://ticketmaster.evyy.net/c/4256257/264167/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2Flocash-tickets%2Fartist%2F1078793)
and The War And Treaty—the husband-and-wife duo of U.S. Army veteran Michael Trotter
Jr. and Tanya Trotter.

The Opry and sponsor Humana partnered with CreatiVets to invite men and women of
the U.S. military and CreatiVets members, as well as spouses, children and parents
of service members to walk the red carpet into the Opry House for the evening’s 
show.

Highlights of this year’s Opry Salute the Troops will air as a special Opry Live
on Memorial Day weekend (Saturday, May 27) on the Opry’s TV broadcast home, Circle
Network, Circle All Access Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.