Have You Forgotten?

"Have You Forgotten?" is a country song by Darryl Worley. It attempts to invoke the memory of the September 11th terrorist attacks as motivation for supporting the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Worley and songwriter Wynn Varble wrote the song in December of 2002, after a USO trip to Afghanistan and during the height of the Bush administration's push to justify the invasion of Iraq. It was #1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs for seven weeks, reaching #1 after only five weeks on the charts, and peaking at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was also the cover track for the Have You Forgotten? album.

Regarding his motivation for writing the song, Worley says, "I didn't really care if I made a bunch of money from it. I did want the people that it was written for—the men and women that died in the tragedy of 9/11 and their families, the men and women that wore the uniforms here in our country and then last but not least, our military troops that were in Afganistan takin' care of business—I just wanted to do something to honor them."^[1]

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Preceded by "Brokenheartsville" by Joe Nichols	Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number one single by Darryl Worley April 5-May 17, 2003	Succeeded by "Three Wooden Crosses" by Randy Travis