01/09/2015
Springsteen Honors Vets in DC
‘The Concert for Valor’ a free Veterans Day event featuring Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, Rhiana, Jennifer Hudson, Carrie Underwood and Eminem, drew 100,000 people to the Mall in Washington DC and a home audience of an estimated 30 million via its live HBO broadcast. The concert honored all veterans and their families with special focus on the need to support the 2.6 million veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The broadcast resulted in an outpouring of donations to several nonprofit veteran support organizations. Check out Bruce’s solo acoustic version of ‘Promised Land’ - here