KFAN, a local sports talk radio station here in Minneapolis/St. Paul (AM 1130), has a morning drive-time show called "The Power Trip Morning Show". Its primary host is Mike Morris, a former Minnesota Vikings player who goes by the moniker "The Superstar". The show's co-host, Chris Hawkey, is also a singer in a local rock band. It's a decent program--it's not nearly as ego-driven as the show name and the host's moniker may make it sound.
Each morning for about the past 8 years (since 9/11), they've been ending the show with a segment called "The True Superstar of the Day"--an acknowledgement that the host, when it comes right down to it, is just a radio personality, and not nearly as deserving of the "Superstar" moniker as so many other men and women out there. In the segment, they pick a recently-fallen soldier (when it first started, it also used fire and police officers who perished on 9/11) and tell us some info about him/her--where they're from, who old they were, what family they had, how/when/where they died, and any other information they can get ahold of. They then ask everyone to keep that soldier and their family in their minds and their prayers that day. During the entire segment, a song written and performed by Hawkey and his band, expressing their gratitude and debt to all of our fallen soldiers, is playing in the background. It's one of the classiest regularly-running segments I've seen/heard in recent years.
