MUSKOGEE, Okla. According to Police Chief Gary Sturm, most of the robbings and thievings and shootings in this town, as in towns large and small across America, are accountable to the drug trade.

Whoa now, chief. Haven't you heard the song?

Anyone over 35 who owns a radio and has an ear for country music has to believe that if there is one drug-free zone anywhere in the land it has to be Muskogee, Okla.

Twenty years ago Merle Haggard, the songwriter and guitar picker, put Muskogee on the map as a place where true Americans lived and had their red, white and blue values well in hand.

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