WHAT IF THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA AND NOBODY CAME?

Charlie Daniel's to perform in Wiesbaden...that is the garrison home of the 1AD.

Wonder who will attend now? Perhaps a lot of family members...I might.

The Charlie Daniels Band will perform May 6 at Wiesbaden Army Airfield in what could have been a roaring welcome home party for 1st Armored Division troops.

Many of the post’s soldiers were supposed to be returning from Iraq following a yearlong deployment, but many have been told to expect to remain in the combat zone into the summer. So the airfield — which serves as the headquarters for the “Old Ironsides” division — sits nearly empty.

The concert had been announced in March as part of the division’s reintegration program for returning soldiers. But officials have shelved plans to call the concert a “reunion celebration.”

A spokesman for Gen. B.B. Bell, the Army’s top commander in Europe, denied the concert was ever intended as a welcome home bash.

The division’s planned return “had nothing to do with the fact that [Charlie Daniels] is playing at Wiesbaden,” said Robert Purtiman. “The only reason they chose that place is because of its central location.”

Not so, say officials for the Army’s Morale, Welfare and Recreation European division, which is sponsoring the concert.

“Originally, this was supposed to be a welcome home party for the division,” said Laura Waid, who’s helping organize the concert for MWR. “The idea was to make this a reunion celebration, but now it doesn’t look like that’s the best title for it.”

I'm disturbed that the spokesman for the US Army Europe commander says this wasn't to be a welcome home bash...and goes on to say the site was selected for its "central location". Wiesbaden is central to Army posts in Germany as West Virginia is "central" to the United States.

I hope he just got bad information...we don't need spin from our own guys.