He attends the local Baptist church and he writes songs. His minister often looks for a song for a special occasion, and asked Tony if he had a song for Memorial Day. Tony had never heard of a Memorial Day song, so he set out to fill the void. Riding around on his tractor, where he gets his ideas, the words just came to him. He wrote them down and showed them to his wife, Carol. “It was easy, really,” Tony recalled. “The whole thing took about 15 minutes.”