Country music legend Charlie Daniels (top left) and Gibson Guitar Chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz (top center) joined Major General Gus Hargett and members of the Tennessee National Guard in launching Operation Heartstrings. Gibson Guitar generously donated 100 Epiphone guitars and custom designed Operation Heartstrings t-shirts for the troops in Iraq which Daniels insured delivery of recently.

Operation Heartstrings is a campaign to mobilize corporate America in helping the dedicated men and women serving in the Armed Forces combat the loneliness and isolation of service through music by supplying them with instruments, DVDs, CDs and DVD players.

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