Hank Williams Jr. has been a shining example of how football transcends race, culture and class.

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Beethoven, who never registered for an American political party, and Hank Williams Jr.

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The stocky soldier, who loves to hunt, fish and sing Hank Williams Jr. songs, told CNN a few weeks before he was sent into Iraq that he was ready for war.

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