Keni Thomas
Keni Thomas is an American country music singer and former United States Army Ranger. Thomas was a member of Task Force Ranger as a part of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, and served in the Battle of Mogadishu. Thomas works as a motivational speaker drawing from this experience as a US Ranger.
As a country singer, Thomas has recorded several independently released albums. Two singles, from the album Flags of Our Fathers:A Soldier's Story charted on the Billboard country music charts.
Thomas appeared in a pair of 2011 episodes of FX television show Louie, portraying himself in a fictionalized version of a real U.S.O. visit to Afghanistan (season 2 episodes 11 and 12).
Military career
Thomas enlisted in the Army in 1991. Prior to joining the Army he graduated from the University of Florida. He served as a Ranger in the 75th Ranger Regiment, eventually attaining the rank of Staff Sergeant.
Thomas was a member of Task Force Ranger as a part of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. A main objective of the Task Force was to capture the elusive Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The most well known of their combat missions occurred October 3, 1993, when Thomas and fellow Task Force members were involved in the Battle of Mogadishu that was later immortalized in the book Black Hawk Down and its subsequent film adaptation, for which he served as a consultant. Tac Fitzgerald portrayed him in the film. Twenty years later he returned to Mogadishu with fellow veteran Jeff Struecker, now a pastor, to film a short retracing their steps in the Battle of Mogadishu. He also served as a consultant for We Were Soldiers.
Thomas, Keni Filmography
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2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2003, role: actor , character name: Himself - US Ranger
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2002, role: actor , character name: Catfish Festival Singer
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2002, role: actor , character name: Sergeant
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2002, role: miscellaneous crew
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2001, role: miscellaneous crew
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Famous quotes by Keni Thomas:
Keni Thomas
ALBUMS
- Flags Of Our Father released:
Send Me (with Shawn Mullins)
Spoken: The trail of the 3rd Army and 19th tactical air command of the 8th Air Force
is marked by more than 40,000 white crosses; 40,000 dead Americans
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We were young and soldiers called to dedicate our lives
In the name of God and country
Do whats just boys, go do whats right
A hard band of brothers waiting on our chance
To add one more page onto the victory dance
Here am I, Lord send me, send me
Victory lies in the spirit of the lives of the men who died for me
Well we stood upon the ramparts, and we fought to save ourselves
But the price one pays for victory, Lord I know it all, I know it all too well
And they may call us heroes, but only those whove been will know
I would give my life for the man beside me
Just to bring my brother, yeah bring him home
Here am I, send me
Send me
Victory lies in the spirit of the lives of the men who died for me
Yeah, send me
Yeah, send me
Send me
Oh, send me, Lord
Victory lies in the spirit of the lives of the men who died for me
Father forgive us for we know not what we do
Father forgive us all we have been through, we band of brothers
Yeah, we band of brothers
And now the bows have all been broken
And the warriors come home
But if they called again
Who would answer then, like my Daddy did
So many years before
Here am I, Lord send me
Send me
Victory lies in the spirit of the lives of the men who died for me
Yeah, send me
Yeah, send me
Oh, send me
Oh, send me, Lord
Victory lies in the spirit of the lives of the men who died for me
Send me
Oh, Lord send me
Oh, send me
Send me
Victory lies in the spirit of the lives of the men who died for me
Hey, send me
Why dont you send me
Come on send me
Here am I, send me
Victory lies in the spirit of the lives of the men who died for me
Oh, send me
Oh, send me
Oh, send me
Send me
Victory lies in the spirit of the lives of the men who died for me
Oh, send me
Oh, send me