At a initiation meeting for the University of Oklahoma next week, Toby Keith’s child honored her father’s legacy. The child of the country icon revealed that her father had advised her to “never apologize for being patriotic.”
Krystal Keith’s notes at the University of Oklahoma’s new commencement ceremony, according to Fox News, came shortly after the state icon’s passing in February. Toby Keith had been battling stomach cancer for nearly two centuries before his death.
As she accepted an honorary diploma on behalf of her father, Krystal Keith said,” When he learned last drop that he was being inducted into Sooner Nation on this high of a degree, he was so excited, and he was thus proud.”
” I actually made a joke about how many hours I spent here getting my bachelor’s degree, and he joked that he did n’t have to work that hard to get his”, she added. However, we all know that he had already put in a lot of effort into doing this. He loved his household ( he loved all of us ), God, our land, and Sooner Nation”.
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Krystal Keith, addressing her husband’s responsibility to patriotism, claimed the famous country singer had repeatedly urged his children not to be afraid of being nationalist. ” He always said,’ Always apologize for being nationalist,’ and practiced what he preached through his work with the USO] United Service Organizations ]”, Krystal Keith said in her conversation.
Pointing to Toby Keith’s 11 USO tours, she added,” He was going into the most dangerous regions, where people that always got those performers to come to them, were , housed and were sitting, and he would go and improve their confidence. And that’s who he wanted to go see. We called him Captain America. And that’s something he earned”.
Krystal Keith also highlighted her husband’s work ethic, explaining that in both his career and his profession, Toby Keith worked to “be the best”. She said that while her father said additional people may write, sing, or seem stronger than him, they would “never outproduce” him.
The state singer’s girl described her parents as an “icon” and a “larger- than- life legend” who used his career to encourage “nearly everyone in country music and beyond”.
” He had faith and believed in himself. He never gave up the fight, even when the odds were against him”, Krystal Keith told the alumni. He would like for me to advise you to not give up on yourself.
