Here are a few songs to honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice serving our country. Also included are a few songs about remembering those who have gone before us.
- 640 Battlefield Drive
- Nu-Blu “Vagabonds” (Voxhall)
- A Folded Flag
- Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers “For the Record” (Billy Blue)
- A Hero in Harlan
- Tom T. Hall “Sings Miss Dixie and Tom T.” (Blue Circle)
- Annie’s Boy
- Larry Sparks “New Moon Over My Shoulder” (Rebel)
- Another Soldier
- Lorraine Jordan and Carolina Road “True Grass” (Pinecastle)
- Arlington
- Tim Raybon (single/Pinecastle)
- A Soldier’s Prayer
- Mountain Heart “Force of Nature” (Skaggs Family Records)
- A Soldier’s Last Request
- Rick Lang featuring Trey Hensley “A Tale to Tell” (Dark Shadow)
- Between the Devil and the Deep
- Band of Ruhks “Band of Ruhks” (101 Ranch)
- Blood Red Roses
- Joe Ross “Festival Time Again” (no label)
- Bouquet in Heaven (When It’s Decoration Day Up in Heaven)
- Flatt and Scruggs “1948-1959, Disk 1” (Bear Family)
- J.D. Crowe and the New South “Flashback” (Rounder)
- Casualty of War
- Larry Sparks “The Last Suit You Wear” (McCoury Music)
- Decoration Day
- Sandy Shortridge “The End” (no label)
- Down Where the River Bends
- Ralph Stanley & Dwight Yoakum “Saturday Night/Sunday Morning” (Rebel)
- Old & In the Way “Breakdown: Live Recordings 1973” (Acoustic Disk)
- Red Allen, David Grisman, Herb Pederson, etc. “Bluegrass Reunion” (Acoustic Disk)
- The Osborne Brothers “Detroit to Wheeling” (Pinecastle)
- J. D. Crowe “Bluegrass Holiday” (Rebel)
- Faded Coat of Blue
- Dry Branch Fire Squad “Tried and True” (Rounder)
- Suzanne Thomas “Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts” (Rounder)
- Folded Up Flag
- Eddie Sanders “Walking in Those Shoes” (Engelhardt)
- Forgotten Men
- Don Reno, Red Smiley and the Tennessee Cutups “1951-1959” (King)
- Forgotten Soldier Boy
- The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover “Bluegrass at the Roots” (Smithsonian/Folkways)
- God Bless the Soldier
- Rhonda Vincent “All American Bluegrass Girl” (Rounder)
- Gold Star Mother
- Aaron Bibelhouser “Wyoming Child” (no label)
- Hawk
- Chatham County Line “Tightrope” (Yep Roc)
- Heroes
- The Bressler Brothers “Heroes” (Shan Co-Mo Records, Prime Cuts Volume 51)
- Home “The Soldiers Song”
- New River Line “I’m Movin’ On” (Kindred Records)
- Home to You
- Chris Luquette “The Way I View the World” (no label)
- Jericho
- Mile Twelve “City on a Hill” (Delores the Taurus)
- Journey of a Soldier
- Shawn Lane ” I Met the Man” (Cat Town)
- Lost Soldier Son
- Chris Brashears “Wanderlust” (Copper Creek)
- Luckiest Man Alive
- The Nashville Bluegrass Band “Twenty Year Blues” (Sugar Hill)
- Me and John and Paul
- The Grascals (Rounder)
- More Than a Name on the Wall
- Dailey & Vincent “Dailey & Vincent” (Rounder)
- Prayer from Home
- Brand New Strings “No Strings Attached” (Rural Rhythm)
- Promise to a Soldier
- Honi Deaton & Dream “Promise to a Soldier” (Chateau Music Group)
- Purple Heart
- Red Allen & The Kentuckians “Bluegrass Country” (County)
- Curly Seckler “Bluegrass, Don’t You Know” (Copper Creek)
- Jim & Jesse “1952-1955” (Bear Family)
- Remembering
- The Grascals “Keep on Walkin'” (Rounder)
- Reveille Time in Heaven
- Mac Wiseman “Bluegrass Hits and Heartaches” (Rebel)
- Riding with Private Malone
- James King “Three Chords and the Truth” (Rounder)
- Searching For a Soldier’s Grave
- The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys “Toil, Tears, Trouble” (Rounder)
- Soldier Song
- Mountain Fever “Blue” (Mountain Fever)
- Something About a Soldier
- Leona Williams, Ron Williams and the Bluegrass Martins “Travel Down This Road with Me” (Loveshine)
- Summer’s Last Dance
- Valerie Smith “Patchwork Heart” (Bell Buckle)
- The Last Parade
- Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers “Another Day from Life” (Rebel)
- The Rocket
- Blue Moon Rising “After All This Time” (Mountain Fever)
- There’s Something About a Soldier
- Leona Williams, Ron Williams and the Bluegrass Martins “Travel Down This Road With Me” (Loveshine)
- This is My Son
- Cherryholmes “Cherryhomes III: Don’t Believe” (Skaggs Family)
- Those Boots
- The Roys “Those Boots” (Rural Rhythm)
- Til They Come Home
- Rhonda Vincent “All American Bluegrass Girl” (Rounder)
- Twentieth Century Drifter (for the Indy 500, which is always on Memorial Day weekend.)
- Marty Robbins “Good and Country” (MCA)
- Two Soldiers
- Blue Highway “Through the Window of a Train” (Rounder)
- Walking Up This Hill on Decoration Day
- Don Rigsby “Doctor’s Orders” (Rebel)
- Welcome Home
- Dailey & Vincent “The Gospel Side of Dailey and Vincent” (Cracker Barrel)
- When the Roses Bloom Again
- Mac Wiseman “Bluegrass Hits and Heartaches” (Rebel)
- Where Good Daddies Go
- Donna Hughes “From the Heart” (Running Dog)
- Will You Fold My Flag for Me
- Flashback “Blues Around My Cabin” (Pinecastle)
- With Love from Normandy
- Marshall “Brink” Brinkman “On the Brink of a Dream” (no label)
- Wrap My Body in Old Glory When I Die
- The Osborne Brothers “Dayton to Knoxville” (Pinecastle)