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- Text: ...we pulled into the train depot at night and they actually had a band out to meet us and I couldn't believe it. Here was music playing and people yelling and greeting us and really trying to make us feel at home. I didn't expect anything like that. I don't know whether I'...
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- Text: ...I don’t know where he got located though further on in the Pacific I guess. We had all kinds of good music. Those wonderful songs of WWII were played on the ship radio and I lay in the sun on the deck. Didn’t do much of anything for five (5) days. I got into the presidio and I think I...
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- Text: ...He sometimes took naps there as well. They also took the underground subway to Piccadilly Circus. There he saw musicals, had dates, and went to bars. They all laughed and had a great time. (28:20) The English people there treated him and the other soldiers very well all the time. They stopp...
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- Text: ...e frontier westerns – everybody had a gun, everybody was mixed. They would go around, there'd be shootings, there was music going and blaring. We came out one night after eating there in a restaurant and these two Burmese drivers were coming up the road with this cat - this Snow Leop...
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- Text: ... the far southwest corner of the Sixth Circuit, in Memphis, Tennessee, there is the black community that gave birth to blues music and rhythm and blues. and inspired a poor white in the housing projects, Elvis Presley. The boundaries of the 12 judicial circuits of the United States Court of...
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- Text: ...e words down by how they sounded and Earl did the same thing. • Earl graduated from the 8th grade with one extra credit in Music. • Earl went to high school between Garfield and Damascus. • (13:47) His high school had a basketball team but no football team. He was told he should play ...
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- Text: ...f Lofer, near Salzburg -Saw the reopening of Mozart's house and theater -Watched the first performance of Mozart's music since the Nazi occupation -One man in his unit acted as the manager for the performance -Allowed Allan and his friends to watch the performance from box seats (...
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- Text: ... flat on my back there for thirty some days. They had sand bags on both sides of my head and I never got so sick of Hawaiian music in all of my life. 39:01 Of course they were trying to build up your morale and they put those earphones on and played and played that Hawaiian music u...
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- Text: ...was my dad and I, like I said, we were always so close, and we were standing back in the entrance way of the church, and the music kept playing “Here Comes the Bride.” And my dad and I kept talking and talking. I don’t know how many times they played it. And Ed tells me, he thought he...
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- Text: ...I don’t know how many fellows took it but he went on to Central Michigan then and got his degree for teaching and math and music. And when he went to be in high school for his first job, I went with him for first grade, So that’s how much difference it was between my oldest brother and ...
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- Text: ...n in Sturgis, Michigan at 220 Grove Street on March 3, 1921 -Father worked for CL Spence factory in Sturgis, but also played music -Died on Christmas Eve when Marshall was seven years old -Everybody was poor during the Great Depression -Made do with what they had -Mother remarried in 1933 -...
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- Text: ...ilson It has such few attributes: Comradership of a valorous sort Self-sacrifice and loyalty come to mind And maybe marching music. It's not easy to think of others now Weigh that against the odds: Senseless destruction and waste. Using our resources and Waste of the.young-both friend ...