Billy Graham, Jr. (1918-) is an American evangelist, ordained as a Southern Baptist minister, who rose to celebrity status reaching a core constituency of white, middle-class, moderately conservative Protestants. He held large indoor and outdoor crusades, and his sermons were broadcast on radio and television, and are still being rebroadcast today.

Graham was a spiritual adviser to several Presidents, being particularly close to Dwight D. Eisenhower; Lyndon Johnson, one of his closest friends; and Richard Nixon.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 – 1919) was an American author and poet. Her most enduring work was "The Way Of The World", which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone."

Johnny Cash (1932 – 2003) was a singer-songwriter, actor, and author, widely considered one of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel.

Cash was known for his deep bass-baritone voice, distinctive sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, a rebelliousness coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor, free prison concerts, and trademark look, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black."

Helen Mary Caldicott (1938 - ) is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, war and military action in general.

Crosby, Stills & Nash (1968-), a folk rock supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, became Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young. They are noted for their intricate vocal harmonies, political activism, and lasting influence on American music and culture.

"The Ballad of the Green Berets" is a patriotic song about the Green Berets, an elite special force in the U.S. Army. It is one of the few songs of the 1960s to cast the military in a positive light and in 1966 it became a major hit and a crossover smash, reaching No. 1. for five weeks on the Hot 100 and four weeks on Cashbox.

The song was written by Robin Moore and Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, while the latter was recuperating from a leg wound suffered as a medic in the Vietnam War. The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first native Hawaiian to die in Vietnam, executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

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