re: a-hole celebrities and here are the rules:

Also, and this wasn't a personal encounter, but I read an account of a soldier who was stationed in Korea in 2004 and got to meet country singer Chely Wright (who had already done countless USO tours for deployed troops). He said that she stayed outside for 9 hours in -10 weather hugging soldiers and signing autographs until the last soldier was gone. That is amazing. There have been quite a few singers who have done USO tours and supported troops (Kid Rock, Toby Keith, Aaron Tippin, etc) but what she has done over her career in that department is almost w/o peer. She is a wonderful soul inside and out and one of the big reasons I've always been a big fan of hers.( Her looks aside).

She was also in Baghdad when I was over there in 2003 and I never got to see her. One of my great regrets.