Marketing music through war-time mayhem

Long before Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler marched “Ballad of the Green Beret” to the top of the charts in 1966, war represented a major marketing opportunity for musicians pro and con. However, only the pros tend to get promotion from the Pentagon. Witness country crooner Clint Black’s star-spangled support at Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s Sept. 11th  “America Supports You Freedom Walk” (pictured here) that sought to reconnect the war in Iraq to the terrorist strikes four years before.