Flashback: Merle Haggard Reluctantly Unveils 'The Fightin' Side of Me'

It was 45 years ago today that Merle Haggard recorded his classic pro-military (and anti-protestors) tune, “The Fightin’ Side of Me.” The song was to serve as the follow-up single to the similarly patriotic “Okie From Muskogee,” which had, just a few months earlier, catapulted the singer to country mega-stardom. The……