Country Music Star Donates Horse To Scholarship Fund
x Country music star Charlie Daniels is lending a hand — and some hooves — to an area charity intended to honor a fallen Tri-state soldier.
The Let Us Never Forget scholarship fundraiser started six years ago, after Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin was captured and eventually killed in Iraq.
It’s since grown to honor 69 fallen service members from the Tri-state area.
Daniels donated an American paint horse from his Tennessee farm to the Yellow Ribbon Support Center, operated by Maupin’s parents in Clermont County.
“He recognized all Tri-state Gold Star families by donating this horse to the cause because there’s scholarships that go out every year in all these young men and young women’s names,” said Dave Spencer, whose son, Cpl. Billy Spencer, was killed five years ago in Iraq.
The horse will be auctioned off during the annual fundraiser, which will award 112 scholarships this year.
“I’ve never in my life dreamed that this would become so big and so huge as it has,” said June Izzi Bailey, the event’s coordinator.
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