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Where's the Music? - Couverture souple

Adame, John

 
9781503535732: Where's the Music?
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1503535738 ISBN 13 : 9781503535732
Editeur : XLIBRIS, 2015

Synopsis

I came up with the title "Where's the Music" because as a boy growing up watching John Wayne and Audie Murphy win World War II on the movie screen or television with their heroics punctuated by a musical background. In my first experience with the sting of battle, I wondered where was the music that was supposed to accompany the action happening around me. As a result, I learned that in real battle there is no music-only fear.

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Biographie de l'auteur

The first awareness I had with the results of war was when I was very young. It was at a military funeral for a soldier who had died in combat in the Korean War. I really did not have any idea what was taking place, but I recall soldiers in uniform and the sound of the 21-gun salute, the sounds of the trumpet, and the constant crying. After the service, my parents and I traveled to the home of the dead soldier. As we entered the home, I spotted a portrait of the dead soldier, and as the people passed the portrait, they stopped momentarily and continued into the home. The second took place while we were visiting my maternal grandmother's house. I made my way to one of the bedrooms, and on the bed was a military uniform (my Uncle Chava's Marine uniform). I do not know if he was on his way to or coming home from Korea. All this had been forgotten until the last few years. War and the military were only experienced through John Wayne movies. Family involvement was occasionally mentioned. I remember my grandfather, Abundio, wearing a large heavy coat, which I later learned belonged to one of my uncles while in the service. I knew I had uncles who had fought in World War II and Korea but never heard any war stories. Playing war games and fighting to play John Wayne was just part of a young boy's life. Watching the news of wars on television and newsreel film on the movie theater screen made war a thing that was done in far off lands. As I grew up, I learned of a war in a far off land called Vietnam. I read "Deliver Us from Evil" by Dr. Tom Dooley. It was about his experiences with people in Vietnam during the post-French, Indochina war, and the splitting the country into the communist north and the free south. I later learned that he had influenced President John Kennedy to help the South Vietnamese people. As time went on, I heard more and more about this war in Vietnam.

Présentation de l'éditeur

I came up with the title "Where's the Music" because as a boy growing up watching John Wayne and Audie Murphy win World War II on the movie screen or television with their heroics punctuated by a musical background. In my first experience with the sting of battle, I wondered where was the music that was supposed to accompany the action happening around me. As a result, I learned that in real battle there is no music-only fear.

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Éditeur
XLIBRIS
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1503535738
ISBN 13 
9781503535732
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
174
Coordonnées du fabricant
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