Country star Craig Morgan is trying to track down a fan whose story, he says, reshaped how he views his career. The "That's What I Love About Sunday" singer wrote in a Feb. 3 Facebook post (lightly edited):
- "So after the show I did an autographed [sic] session. There was a young gentleman there who had a prosthetic leg and wanted to tell me a story. I tried to get him to go ahead and tell me his story, but he insisted on waiting until everyone was through. It was a story that changed the way I looked at what I was doing in the music world. If anyone knows who he is and can get him to respond, we would like to talk to him."
The encounter reportedly took place after Morgan's Sept. 6, 2013, show at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup. The singer says the man, a veteran, told him how Morgan's songs had twice saved his life, per the News Tribune. In Morgan's telling, the fan said that while serving in Iraq, he narrowly avoided a sniper's bullet when he leaned down to adjust his music player while Morgan's "Paradise" was playing. The veteran says he later found new perspective while in a dark place when Morgan's "Almost Home" came on the radio.
Morgan himself reenlisted in the US Army Reserve in 2023, after serving previous stints with that military branch, as well as the US Army. Now a chief warrant officer with the Army Reserve and working on a "soldier-led" EP using music written by service members, Morgan says he wants to reconnect with the man and involve him in the project. The Washington State Fair has shared Morgan's appeal but reports no leads so far.
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